Pain Management & Dry Needling
Dry needling and trigger point needling are often treated as separate from acupuncture, though they are, at their core, acupuncture techniques practiced under a different name. These posts explore pain through an East Asian medicine lens, covering myofascial dry needling, recent injury, and pain that has lingered for years.
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What is pain?
We call it a warning system, a malfunction, an enemy to silence. Chinese medicine calls it something else: what happens when flow meets an…
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Is dry needling safe?
A professional athlete. A routine dry needling session. A collapsed lung. The answer to “is this safe?” depends entirely on who is holding the…