Dry Needling
Expert dry needling in Adelaide
We believe Adelaide Physiocare and Sports Acupuncture is the leading dry needling physiotherapy clinic in Adelaide due to both our experience and style of needling. This allows us to manage both people's general injuries and sports injuries of all levels very effectively and quickly. We pride ourselves as being the leading needling physiotherapy clinic especially with regards to our management of elite and professional athletes (as well as amatuer athetes). We have managed a large number of professional and top level elite athletes' muscle imbalances and maintenence requirements with our needling techniques for many years.
We are one of Australia's pioneering clinics with combining manual physiotherapy techniques together with acupuncture and dry needling, which allows us to get you back to your optimal performance in the quickest, safest and strongest way possible.
As a Bupa-preferred provider, we can also offer more rebate to Bupa customers than many other Adelaide needling clinics.
What is dry needling?
In summary, dry needling is a 'Western style' of acupuncture that is evidenced based to be the most effective way to loosen tight and painful muscles. The physiotherapist simply inserts a very thin acupuncture needle through the skin into the tight knotted muscle (a myofascial trigger point), and it deactivates tension and relaxes the overactive muscle.
When needled well, it is extensively proven to provide substantially more release than massage does and with far less surrounding tissue damage, hence is now used widely in physio and sports medicine and is a large part and specialty of Adelaide Physiocare and Sports Acupuncture.
The Evidence.
Dry needling has increased substantially over the past decade amongst physio's due to the development of substantial research that provide's evidence-based support in the use of Dry Needling with musculoskeletal injuries/problems. Studies have shown significant benefit from Dry Needling in the treatment of ailments such as (but not limited to):
Acute & chronic back pain
Sports injuries
Acute and chronic neck pain
Tension and migraine headaches
Pelvic pain
Osteo-arthritis
Tennis elbow
Shoulder conditions