Acupuncture is a treatment derived from ancient Chinese medicine. Fine needles are inserted at certain sites in the body for the management of pain and inflammation and as a means of stimulating the body’s own healing chemicals to aid recovery and enhance rehabilitation.
Acupuncture is one of the skills used within physiotherapy as an integrated approach to treat a wide range of common health problems and to reduce pain.
Further information on acupuncture, Can be found here https://www.aacp.org.uk
How can acupuncture help me? Can be found here https://www.aacp.org.uk/how-can-acupuncture-help-me

Dry needling is an invasive procedure where a fine needle or acupuncture needle is inserted into the skin and muscle. It is aimed at myofascial trigger points which are hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with a hypersensitive palpable nodule in a taut band. Trigger point dry needling can be carried out at superficial or deep tissue level.
Dry needling uses the same fine needles to stimulate anatomically based ‘targets’ in soft tissues like muscles, tendons and fascia, rather than points along an energy line as in acupuncture.
Further information can be found here https://www.nhs.uk/conditions /acupuncture/