EFFECTS OF DRY PUNCTURE IN TREATMENT OF CHRONIC HIP PAIN AND IMPROVEMENT OF MOTOR SKILLS: CASE REPORT

Abstract

Dry needling is a medical technique adapted to acupuncture. Also referred to as intramuscular stimulation
(IMS). It is an invasive procedure in which an acupuncture needle is inserted into the skin and muscles.
Dry needling is aimed at trigger points, which are defined as "hyperirritable spots in muscles that are
associated with hypersensitive palpable nodules in a tight muscle or muscle fiber." Trigger points are
extremely common and trigger a pain symptom in almost every person sooner or later. The aim of this
paper is to show the effects of dry puncture on the reduction of chronic pain in the hip by treating
myofascial trigger points, and to improve the motor skills of a woman of the third age. Dry puncture has
been used by therapists for a long time, but it only became known in the sixties of the last century in the
United States of America when it was put into practice by Janet Travel, then JF Kennedy's personal
therapist. The effects of applying dry puncture in the presentation of the case of a woman with chronic
pain in the hip, show positive effects and the presence of myofascial trigger points as one of the causes of
chronic pain in the hip joint.