This ancient form of traditional Chinese medicine, focuses on balancing Qi and deficiencies throughout the body and organ systems, in an effort to improve pain and dysfunction. Research has supported the usefulness of acupuncture in conditions such as arthritis pain, infertility, insomnia, stress reduction and more. Using some of the same principals on which traditional acupuncture was founded, a more modern approach designed to treat more stubborn pain is dry needling. Dry needling involves the use of acupuncture needles to stimulate multiple points throughout the painful area in order to elicit a local twitch response (LTR.) This, in turn, results in a complex cascade of physiological events and the release of the deepest tissues which otherwise may not have been accessible manually via massage.