What immediate improvement does the speaker report after dry needling?

Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

My First Dry Needling Experience: 70% Better Instantly

29 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A first-person YouTube anecdote (by Jeff Langmaid) describing his initial dry needling session performed by a newly graduated physical therapist. The speaker recounts the PT inserting a needle near the gluteus medius, using a “point stem/point stim” technique, immediately feeling muscle relaxation and a large drop in pain and improved movement — quantified as “about 70% better instantly” — followed by exercises to reintegrate the muscle. The narrator expresses gratitude and curiosity about the technique and the provider.

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So I get in there and this PT who is wet behind the ears looks, you know, like he just graduated like that morning walks up and pulls out a needle and he goes, hey, we're going to put this right near glute mead. We're going to use point stem, and then we'll kind of turn the muscle off and then bring it back online. I'm like, what kind of wizardry is this? Like, you're just going to turn off a spasm muscle just like that. Let's do it. Lo and behold, he takes his needle, uses point stem on it, and immediately I could feel it kind of like relax, and I could move, and the pain went down significantly. And then we did some exercises to kind of like bring it back online. And, man, if it wasn't 70% better instantaneously. And I was just so grateful because I got to go and work that day. And then immediately I'm like thinking to myself, why does he get to do this?