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This paper looks at Trigger point Dry Needling and patient education on low back pain and kinesiophobia.
The results suggest that TrP-DN was effective for improving pain, disability, kinesiophobia and widespread pressure sensitivity in patients with mechanical LBP at short-term.Anna and/or Sue,
I will not have access to the article you posted until I return to work tomorrow but could you give a quick synopsis on how dry needling and neuroscience can coexist?
I have always taken the stance that my treatments should not cause pain but I have given dry needling a pass due to how effective it is. Possibly the biggest takeaway from pain education is that pain is a poor indicator of tissue damage. Inserting a needle into tissue is nociceptive input which more often than not causes some level of discomfort.
How do you go about educating your patient on pain while causing some level of pain with the procedure itself? Any recommendations past this specific article would be great (I need to do more looking into Moseley and Butler).
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