The following articles address information about dry needling and the benefits of this procedure.

 

Dr. Fishkin was interviewed about Dry Needling for a radio progam, To Your Health, which aired Nov 8, 2011, on Coast Community Radio in Oregon. To hear that interview click here.

 

Dr. Fishkin's reputation as an expert clinician and educator in Dry Needling, as well as an innovator and advocate in its use as a chiropractic and manual-medicine treatment modality, has resulted in the Journal of The American Chiropractic Association (JACA) interviewing him for a two-part article about Dry Needling.
Click here to read part one of the article (which was published in the July 2011 issue of JACA).
Click here to read part two of the article (which was published in the August 2011 issue of JACA).

Why Dry Needling - Article in the MCA Journal by Dr. Fishkin

Does EMG (dry needling) reduce myofascial pain symptoms due to cervical nerve root irritation? - Abstract

Dry needling of trigger points with and without paraspinal needling in myofascial pain syndromes in elderly patients. - Abstract

Dry Needling to a Key Myofascial Trigger Point May Reduce the Irritability of Satellite MTrPs. - Abstract

The needle effect in the relief of myofascial pain. - Abstract

Management of Myofascial Trigger Point Pain - White Paper (PDF)
Peter Baldry
This paper is based on a lecture given at the BMAS Spring Scientific Meeting, Bournemouth 2001

Needling therapies in the management of myofascial trigger point pain: A systematic review. - Abstract

A Comparative Study of Two Myofascial Infiltration Techniques in Trigger Points: Dry Needling and Local Anaesthetic Injections.

Shoulder impingement in tennis/racquetball players treated with subscapularis myofascial treatments. - Abstract

Diagnosis and therapy of myofascial trigger points. - Abstract

Superficial Versus Deep Dry Needling.

Bilateral myofascial trigger points in the forearm muscles in patients with chronic unilateral lateral epicondylalgia: a blinded, controlled study.

German Acupuncture Trials (GERAC) for Chronic Low Back Pain - Study (PDF)

Connective Tissue Mechanotransduction Responses To Stretch and Acupuncture: From Ex Vivo Fibroblast Cytoskeletal Morphology to In Vivo Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging.

Inhibitory effect of dry needling on the spontaneous electrical activity recorded from myofascial trigger spots of rabbit skeletal muscle - Abstract

Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain: an updated systematic review within the framework of the cochrane collaboration. - Abstract

Treatment of myofascial pain syndrome.- Abstract

Myofascial trigger points - Abstract

Hemiparetic Shoulder Pain Syndrome Treated with Deep Dry Needling During Early Rehabilitation: A Prospective, Open-Label, Randomized Investigation - Abstract

Trigger Point Injections for Chronic Non-Malignant Musculoskeletal Pain: A Systematic Review - Abstract

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