At CHI Health St. Mary’s we use a multitude of therapy interventions in the treatment of low back pain. In addition to the normal joint mobilization and corrective exercises, we also like to utilize functional dry needling.
In functional dry needling, we insert a tiny monofilament needle into your muscles to help reduce the amount of spasm and tension within that segment. In doing so, we increase the blood flow and promote healing in a very safe and helpful manner.
We’re going to demonstrate functional needling for the elevation and treatment of low back pain. We use a tiny monofilament needle to go into the muscle and help break up any tight tissue or trigger points. By doing so, we identify the tight spot, we bracket around the tissue and insert the needling into the skin. We then angle back, down into the muscle until that muscle elicits a twitch. Thus, breaking up the knots.
From there, we can leave the needle or we can insert a secondary needle and use electrical stimulation that helps cut down on post needle soreness. The key with functional dry needling is the needle insertion into the muscle. However, the electrical stimulation will help with soreness later on that day and into the next day.
By inserting the secondary needle at the level below, you can angle back. There you go. And use alligator clips to elicit a muscle contraction out of the tissue. If we look closely, we can see that muscle bouncing up and down as that tissue not only gets increase blood flow, but also starts to relax.
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