@nonnahelen dry needling is for many things. Pain, mobility, anxiety, to break muscle patterns like the damage we cause by slouching, thats just an example, and/or when we want to build new muscle patters like joint replacemen therapy, or back surgery, simple training for a walk or run. The uses and applications are pretty endless. Dry needling was developed by a cardiologist believe it or not. The idea is to bring blood flow and other inflammatory helpers to a specific site and also to mimic the process muscles go through when they are worked out. Inflamation gets a bad rap however it is not all bad. The inflamatory response is how the body heals and often grows. I mean good growth, like new nerve pathways and stronger musculature and the like. When muscles are worked out, tiny, itty-bitty tears occur in the muscle fibers. That's what we feel after a good work out. Not pain per say, but the muscles telling you they got a good workout. The body's response to that, to the microscopic tears in the fibers of muscle, is what helps build up muscle tissue making them more strong. So dry needling mimics those tiny tears, but it can be used for trigger points, anxiety, muscle patterns like not activating, and the body does the rest, in response. It's such a great tool I think. It helps me a lot.