Dry Needling for Chronic Pain: How It Works and What to Expect

It’s obvious that chronic pain is physically exhausting. But unfortunately, it’s also mentally exhausting as well. When pain lingers for weeks, months or years, it often means the muscles, nerves, and surrounding tissue have adapted in ways that keep the pain cycle going, even long after the original injury has healed. Dry needling is one tool that physical therapists use to help interrupt that cycle.