HLA San Carlos it has incorporated into its service portfolio the unit of invasive physiotherapy and dry needling. Dry needling is a technique used by physiotherapists in which they treat pain and movement deficits. Muscle pains have a high prevalence in today's society, the HLA physiotherapist San Carlos Office, David Dolz, explains that "the misuse, abuse and mainly disuse of our musculature in the activities of daily life make this one of the main sources of pain"Seven out of ten people in our country suffer muscular pains at work. 74,2% of workers suffer from any of these ailments, according to the latest survey of the National Institute of Safety and Health at Work.
The technique used
HLA San Carlos uses the technique that has shown clinical improvements in a multitude of pathologies and musculoskeletal syndromes. For this, a dry needle is used, without medication or injection, which is inserted through the skin in muscle areas, it has been studied mainly in physiotherapy for the treatment of myofascial pain syndrome, the set of signs and symptoms produced by Myosfascial trigger points that cause a hyperirritable focus within a contracture or tight band of a muscle being painful to compression, to other mechanical stimuli, can cause referred pain and motor dysfunction.
Muscular injuries result in repetitive contractions typical of many activities of daily life and work; for example, a job that has few breaks, and that these are not used to perform mobility exercises can contribute to the formation of contractures, in addition trigger points are areas with little oxygen saturation, so "It is important to recommend pauses and changes of position in our work activities and daily life in order to avoid overloads and give the opportunity to structures overburdened to recover"Explains the HLA physiotherapist.
The physiotherapeutic treatment is based on the education of the patient regarding muscle pain, a better understanding of pain can help to modulate it. Dry needling is beneficial in pain control and works through what has been called analgesia by stimulation, this is the application of a stimulus to the nervous system that allows pain relief activating modulating responses of the pain of the body.
This technique is not the only one they have in the Invasive Physiotherapy service, others are included as educational interventions, postural and active kinesitherapy or movement.
