#DryNeedling and #ClassicalChineseAcupuncture #Acupuncture for #NeckPain and #Vertigo #Dizziness
Channel: Eyton Shalom, L.Ac.
Date: 2020-10-12

Dry Needling #TriggerPointTherapy to release #TriggerPoints that cause #NeckPain can be combined with the prinicples of #Acupuncture therapy when treating a mixed pattern, in this case, a middle aged woman with what #ChineseMedicine describes as  chronic Liver Depression Qi Stagnation that contributes to tight muscles and fascia in the neck, as well as Dizziness that developed after trauma to her neck. 

In Classical #ChineseMedicine #LiverDepression #QiStagnation describes many of the symptoms that we in the West categorize under the very general and unhelpfully vague category of stress. 

In fact, what we describe as "stress" is usually a way of describing our individual reaction to #stressors, ergo, our #stressresponse. The stress response is the #fightflightfreeze response. We are biologically hard wired to respond to real or perceived danger with either fighting, fleeing, or freezing. And this wiring produces a cascade of physical responses from muscle tension to high blood pressure to a sudden rush of downward energy into the legs, that is perfectly normal when you must fight an enemy or flee a tsunami, but not so much when you are simply afraid of the dark or hate your job.

 This nervous system - brain programming is a two way street. Frustrating and scary things put us into the fight/flight response with all of its concrete physical responses, whether we actually need to fight or flee...An example is getting impatient at the red light even when you are not in a hurry.

Acupuncture is a super effective therapy for getting us out of the fight or flight response. And DryNeedling is a super effective therapy for getting our muscles and fascia out of the locked short patterns developed from injury or tension or both...