Dry needling is the painless inserting of an acupuncture style needle into a trigger point in a muscle. This process causes the trigger point to relax and the pain to dissipate. This is combined with chiropractic adjustments and exercises to correct the issue at the cause.

You are probably wondering what a trigger point is and what an acupuncture needle is. A trigger point is what is commonly known as a muscle knot. They are sensitive parts of a muscle that are often tender to touch. Sometimes they even refer pain to other areas of the body. An acupuncture needle is a single use extremely thin solid core needles (needles used for injection are hollow) typically the diameter is 0.20mm about twice as thick as a human hair.