Dry needling is it same as accupunture?..

As the name suggests Dry needling the needle is dry that means it does not deliver any medicine in it to the body...The needle used in Dry needling are small hair like filiform needle which we insert through the skin to the target soft tissue to bring about a therapeutic effect.
Although the neddle used are same as accupunture neddle but the theory and mechanism of action are different between accupunture and dry needling.
Accupunture is based on theory of traditional Chinese medicine where there are certain energy points in our body where  the needle is inserted to treat different kind of condition. 
Dry needling is basically used to treat musculoskeletal pain and to promote tissue healing which results in pain relief.
Dry needling in done primarily to break the trigger point (muscle knots) formed in our muscle due to prolonged muscle tightness which results in pain dry neddle helps in breaking those muscle knots.Another property of dry needling is to promote tissue healing by increasing blood supply to the target area by doing micro injury to the area and it also helps in releasing endhorpins thus reducing the pain perception.....

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