@Burger posted:Son is starting to get treatment for tendinitis in throwing shoulder and dry needling was discussed as part of the treatment plan. Has anyone ever did this and was it beneficial in pain reduction and or recovery time speed up? HS season is a couple weeks away and looking at all options. Thanks.
So, dry needling compared to sham dry needling results in the same outcome. That doesn't mean it can't help, it's just the reason why it helps isn't because of anything the needle is doing (it is the contextual effects). If you want me to elaborate further on that I can.
Basically, sure it can help to temporarily decrease pain, as can a lot of things. No it doesn't break up adhesions, no it doesn't stimulate healing or anything like that.
Ideally you'd want to structure a progressively loaded program to build up strength, tissue capacity, and restore any limitations noted in the evaluation (whether that is strength, or range of motion, or kinesiophobia, etc...) and you'd want to do this while also gradually building up pitch intensity, volume, frequency, over a period of time.