I recently had "needling" done to my back. My scapula and neck were riddled with "knots".
Needling provided temporary relief... but I it was just that temporary. It's a bandaid.
What has actually started to provide a lasting fix is dead hangs throughout the day.. it makes sense. It reverses my forward shoulder, gets blood flowing to those areas, AND strengthens.
I'm so... soooo.. disappointed in professional physical therapists. I've gone through many of them and they all seem to apply basic heuristics without diagnosing the root cause. And I feel that sometimes the root cause - and the fix - can be something super specific that needs surgical precision.
Or perhaps the fix just isn't as profitable as "needling".
I think PTs need to apply more of a engineering/debugging mindset. They're using hammers when they need scalpels - just NOT these "needling scalpels".
Needling provided temporary relief... but I it was just that temporary. It's a bandaid.
What has actually started to provide a lasting fix is dead hangs throughout the day.. it makes sense. It reverses my forward shoulder, gets blood flowing to those areas, AND strengthens.
I'm so... soooo.. disappointed in professional physical therapists. I've gone through many of them and they all seem to apply basic heuristics without diagnosing the root cause. And I feel that sometimes the root cause - and the fix - can be something super specific that needs surgical precision.
Or perhaps the fix just isn't as profitable as "needling".
I think PTs need to apply more of a engineering/debugging mindset. They're using hammers when they need scalpels - just NOT these "needling scalpels".