Acupuncture and dry needling as part of a root-cause approach — not a standalone appointment. Used alongside fascial release and biomechanics to address chronic pain, sciatica, knee pain, muscle tension and recovery from injury.
Acupuncture at Elite Pain & Performance is integrated treatment — not a separate modality booked in isolation. It's used as part of a session when it's the most effective tool for what your body needs: releasing trigger points, reducing nerve sensitisation, or calming a local inflammatory response that's keeping an injury stuck.
Dry needling targets specific myofascial trigger points — taut bands within muscle tissue that refer pain and restrict movement. When a needle is placed directly into a trigger point, it triggers a local twitch response and a cascade of physiological changes that release the restriction and reset the muscle's neurological tone.
Combined with fascial release and movement re-education, the results tend to be deeper and more lasting than either approach alone. Because we're not just releasing the trigger — we're addressing what created it.
It's needling with a reason behind every placement.A standalone acupuncture appointment treats the symptom. It can provide real relief — sometimes significant. But if the fascial restriction, movement compensation or load pattern driving the trigger point stays in place, the restriction comes back. Every time.
By combining acupuncture and dry needling with fascial mapping and functional movement work, we can often achieve in one or two sessions what would take many more appointments in isolation. And what we find tends to stay found.
Shooting pain down the leg, burning in the glute, pins and needles into the foot. Acupuncture modulates the nerve sensitisation driving sciatic referral — combined with fascial release of the piriformis and lumbar structures compressing the nerve.
Patellofemoral pain, ITB syndrome, pes anserine bursitis and general knee ache. Trigger points in the quads, VMO, TFL and hamstrings all contribute to knee pain — and respond well to dry needling combined with movement re-education.
Back pain that's been there for months or years. Acupuncture addresses the chronic muscle guarding, trigger points and nerve sensitisation that keep long-term back pain locked in its pattern.
Trigger points in the upper trapezius, levator scapulae and suboccipitals — the classic desk-job constellation. Dry needling provides immediate release; fascial work addresses the postural pattern driving them.
Achilles, rotator cuff, patellar tendinopathy. Needling accelerates tissue remodelling at the tendon and reduces the chronic inflammatory environment keeping the injury active.
Tension headaches and jaw pain driven by trigger points in the temporalis, masseter and suboccipital muscles. Often dramatically responsive to dry needling in the first session.
Movement, fascial mapping and trigger point screening. Build the picture before any needles come out.
Targeted placement into the active trigger points driving your symptoms. Precise, purposeful, not a scatter approach.
Fascial release and movement work in the same session — addressing the structural cause, not just the trigger point.
What to do between sessions, how many you'll need, and whether acupuncture stays in the mix long-term.
I'd had sciatica for four months — two rounds of physio and a lot of ibuprofen. The combination of needling and the fascial work on the first session gave me more relief than anything else I'd tried. Three sessions later and it's gone.
Book a session at Exmouth Marina or start with a free discovery call. If acupuncture is the right tool, it'll be part of the session — not a separate appointment.
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