Should you dry needle?

August 8, 2025

So what dry needling does is take different trigger points, right? And you're going to put a needle into that trigger point. It's going to cause a spasm of the muscle. And that's going to cause it to release, right? It's going to cause that trigger point to release. 

The point that I want to make in regards to dry needling is: if it's something that you have to go do weekly or something that you have to do like a couple times a week or on a consistent basis, the only reason that those trigger points come up is because you're asking your body to do something that you're not prepared enough to do, right? If you are prepared to do what you're asking your body to do, and it's able to function well. Officially, it's able to stay lengthened as you're doing what you're asking yourself to do, whether that's throwing, jumping, sprinting you know, different sports, like whatever that is, or even training  itself. If your body is prepared to do that, or your body is working well, when you're doing that, those trigger points, those areas that feel like they need to get released, aren't going to come up.

And so the point with dry needling is like, Understand that you are handling something that popped up as an effect of the fact of you weren't quite ready for what you asked yourself to do because if you were ready for it, then those triggers points won’t pop up so use those like trigger points popping up or tightness or whatever it is that's popping up more and more as feedback for you for how you can adjust the preparation you're doing. Rather than something that just needs to be treated on the back end with something like dry needling, right?

Because it's like at some point, your body is going to start giving you bigger and bigger signals. Like right now, or let's say at the start, it's just something like, you know, trigger points or something gets tight. 

That's your body giving you feedback to be like, 'Hey, you need to be prepared a little bit better if you want to be able to do that.' So listen to that. Instead of just running to get dry needling done every time, see if you can adjust the preparation to be able to get that to be better, to where you don't actually need the dry needling because your body's prepared to handle it.