Thanks bugged out.
An Acupuncturist undertakes a 4 year degree and approximately 2000 hours of training.
A dry needling course is 70-100 hours and generally done by physios or chiros to complement their techniques. It provides them basics on local trigger point treatment of sore points with no particular focus or understanding of traditional acupuncture points and their actions. For musculoskeletal conditions dry needling can be effective as your friend attests to.
They call it dry needling as they can not hold themselves out to be acupuncturists.
Thanks for the tip about photos, I plan to add some in future when posting about treatments for specific conditions - eg - infertility, allergic rhinitis (hayfever), addictions and irregular menses to name a few.
Interesting, I didn't know acupuncturists studied for such an extensive time, nor had I heard of "dry needling". This article references documented evidence of extensive investigation into acupuncture without mentioning any specific outcomes, is it a teaser article? This certainly make a compelling basis for further consideration.
I'd like to see a series of summary articles exploring and explaining:
Reference/links to studies and publications like in this article would be great, thanks for the reading material.
Hi Neuromancer,
The Acupuncture Evidence Project was a review of 11 years worth of research trials with the aim of compiling their results to determine the efficacy of acupuncture for different ailments . To do this took 2 people close on a year.
The trials reviewed are all referenced in the 81 page document so specific outcomes from each trial can be looked up.
Over time I will do a series of acupuncture treatments for certain conditions backed with referencing to clinical trials and their results.
That's a lot of material to go through, I think it would help to try and work through smaller blocks at a time with a little guidance.
Are you stating how you practice at your clinic, or are you doing a series of articles in this manner? If the latter, I'm looking forward to it, should be very interesting.
Hi Neuromancer - they did this to look at the efficacy of acupuncture for across 122 conditions. Its aim was a broad look at what acupuncture can do well and to highlight any deficiencies in studies for certain conditions that better/further research is required.
I will do a series of articles, one per condition, with the latest results from clinic trials.