Dr. Gunn developed a hybrid Chinese acupuncture method called intramuscular stimulation in 1973, the gate control theory of chronic pain claims acupuncture blocks nerve impulses thus diminishes the pain in many case, prolotherapy is a method that can control chronic pain also this is and injection of sterile hyperosmolar dextrose solution any pain not resolved with this can be topped with dry needling to resolve the rest of the pain, conventional methods do not work.
Key Takeaways:
- Lower back pain is very common and can be frustrating for the patient.
- A trigger point is a focus point located within the muscle that has created the chronic pain. According to Dr. Gunn, chronic muscle pain is a form of neuropathic pain.
- Neural therapy or trigger point injections are quite commonplace now in pain centers. In the mid eighties it was not that well known among physicians.
“Neural therapy or trigger point injections are quite commonplace now in pain centers. In the mid eighties it was not that well known among physicians.”
