The Deep Dry Needling Techniques, and Interventional Muscle and Nerve Stimulation (IMS) for the Treatment of Chronic Pain.
- Author:
Young Jin LEE
1
;
Kang AHN
;
Sang Chul LEE
Author Information
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords: chronic pain; dry needling; interventional muscle and nerve stimulation (IMS)
- MeSH: Chronic Pain*; Humans; Korea; Neural Pathways
- From:The Korean Journal of Pain 2006;19(1):1-7
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
- Abstract: Chronic pain can cause disability, mild to severe suffering and high medical costs. Some unfortunate patient do not improve despite administering conservative treatment and then the various interventional therapies, including oriental medical treatment and/or surgery, and they find themselves in search of a more effective pain relief. Deep dry needling is one of the newer treatment modalities for these patients. The last 10 years have seen a lot of progress in understanding the neural pathways and the type and extent of tissue involvement during chronic pain. This in turn has stimulated the development of new treatment techniques, and deep dry needling is one of them. So, the authors of this paper discuss the individual theories, the characteristics and future directions of several deep dry needling techniques, and we examine the new dry needling technique that has been recently developed in Korea.
