Recovering, slowly, but surely - an experience with dry needling

I went back to the physio today, in the unending quest to remain injury free, and more importantly, pain free. I've been riddled with medical bills of late, between physio, chiro, dental, and other medical expenses; it feels like all my free cash flow has been diverted to health care.

It's important, though, and where I live in Australia, I am very lucky to have such high quality practitioners at reasonably affordable levels.

The amount of comfort this provides is certainly excellent as well.

Today, I got no fancy drugs like I did at the dentist just days ago, but instead got some needles. Dry needles!

I had this done on my good and my bad leg, and by golly, (no expletives required) - it is incredibly effective.

This was the only royalty free image I could find relating to dry needling / acupuncture. It is from Pixabay

Those are not my legs. My issue is in the glute area, and dry needling is essentially like a very quick, firm massage - without the pressure, associated pain, and grimacing.

Instead, with dry needling, you body is a pin-cushion that accepts lots of tiny little needles, which separate out stubborn muscle fibres, and as a result; cause a sensation which I can only describe as hundreds of tiny muscle convulsions that are entirely pleasurable, with a little associated aching.

This has helped a lot with the pain, and aided with recovery a lot, too. I've managed to walk a few kilometres each day for the last few days, having had an appointment on Thursday, then one again today, being on a Monday.

The key now is sustaining some level of physical activity at moderate rate to make sure that I am "right", before I injure myself in the gym, yet again. I'm far too injury prone.