Other states have ruled that chiropractors cannot practice dry needling.

Many states allow physical therapists to perform dry needling, but not acupuncture.

But the Court made no ruling that chiropractors do not have the training needed to perform dry needling.

Another concluded that dry needling can reduce pain, thus improving mood, function, and disability.

Dry needling is also being researched for treatment of plantar fasciitis.

The largest growth in practitioners of dry needling, as a specific technique, in recent years has been among physical therapists.

Even in lateral epicondylitis, dry needling is widely employed by many physical therapists across the world.

Some of these states and others have rule specifically in favor of Chiropractic using dry needling techniques.

The comparisons between dry needling and acupuncture were well-summarized by Zhou et al.

There are however no established guidelines for the frequency a patient can receive dry needling for a specific location.

Many physical therapists and chiropractors have asserted that they are not practicing acupuncture when dry needling.

Both Travell and Hong used hypodermic needles for dry needling.

The study used the dry needling on trigger points to relieve pain in patients with chronic myofascial pain.

It is believed that dry needling would cause a tiny local injury in order to bring about various desirable growth factors in the vicinity.

The ruling did not address whether chiropractors have the medical expertise to use dry needling or whether the training they were being given was adequate.

They have not changed their ruling that dry needling is within the scope of practice for Oregon Physical Therapists.

Dry needling is sometimes also known as intramuscular stimulation (IMS).

Dry needling has its own theoretical concepts, terminology, needling technique and clinical application.

Chan Gunn introduced a type of dry needling called intramuscular stimulation in the 1980s that moved away from using trigger points.

Intramuscular Stimulation, or 'dry needling', is a diagnostic and treatment model for myofascial pain of neuropathic origin.

Studies to date on the efficacy of dry needling for MTrPs and pain have been too small to be conclusive.

Dry needling, and its treatment techniques and desired effects, would be most directly comparable to the use of 'a-shi' points in acupuncture.

This technique creates a small amount of local bleeding that spurs healing of the fascia and is known as dry needling.

Of late, dry needling has been gaining popularity in various types of tendinopathies and pain of muscular origin.

Baldry practiced deep dry needling until he had a patient in the early 1980s with a trigger point in his anterior scalene muscle.