LifeProof Capital has been using DryNeedling since 2017 to enhance the well-being of athletes, recreational exercisers and individuals coping with pain or stress.

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Functional Integrated DryNeedling techniques can be used for

• Sports injuries

• Muscle tension releasing

• Relaxation

• Pain management

Soft tissue therapy goals

• Influence repair process

• Improve physical and mechanical properties; tension, motion, strength

• Improve local fluid dynamics

Some of the positive effects of Functional Integrated DryNeedling mentioned in literature

• Increase in circulation

• Increase in vasodilation

• Muscle relaxation

• Blocks nociception

• Improvement of sleep

• Decrease in subjective sensation of fear

• Decreased hypersensitivity

• Normalization of hormone levels

• Improved neural mapping

Central Nervous System (CNS) response to pain and stress

• Acute pain results in changes in the brain

• Projects into cortices with clarity of the pain

• Pain is a condition stimulus and so must be reconditioned

• Functional Integrated DryNeedling is a way to decondition this response

DryNeedling vs. Acupuncture

• DryNeedling techniques vary as much as Acupuncture techniques do

• Acupuncture techniques follow rigid guidelines for needle placement according to points mapped along meridians that course along the body

• DryNeedling is more anatomical based and the limitation is in one’s ability to asses the injury and their understanding of human anatomy

DryNeedling and placebo effects

• Not to be considered as placebo, because there is an effect on the CNS

• Activating small nerve endings - C fibers

• Project to spinal cord up to thalamus and then into the limbic structure

• They do not project into the cortex and not perceived as a stimulus

Contraindications

• Pregnancy

• Malignant tumors

• Bleeding disorders

• Surgical conditions

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