What is dry needling at Fix It PT in Maple Grove & Vadnais Heights?
Trigger point dry needling, also called intramuscular manual therapy, is a skilled physical therapy technique. Your therapist uses micro-thin, solid filiform needles to reach myofascial trigger points, the hyper-irritated bands of muscle most people call knots, along with irritated nervous tissue that manual therapy alone cannot reach. Nothing is injected. The needle itself is the treatment.
When the needle reaches a tight band of muscle, it often draws a brief twitch response. That twitch is the muscle letting go. Dry needling releases deep tension, resets overactive pain pathways, increases local blood flow and speeds up your body's natural tissue healing.
At Fix It, dry needling is never a stand-alone fix. It is one tool inside the F.A.S.T Approach™. Releasing overactive tissue makes it easier to restore normal joint motion, and once the joint moves well, we build the strength and motor control that keep it moving well. Dr. Libby Lindberg, DPT, is certified in dry needling through the AAMT, and Dr. Joe Herdzina, DPT, SCS, OCS, brings more than a decade of experience in dry needling and advanced manual therapies.
Your therapist will always explain why dry needling is being suggested, which muscles it targets and how it connects to the joint motion and strength work that follows, so you understand every step of your plan.
