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017. Injury reduction with Dr Peter Brukner

Physio Edge podcast with David Pope

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How to Use Dry Needling to Treat Chronic Soft Tissue Problems

I'm a huge believer in dry needling. I think it's the single best technique that I have in my sort of weaponry for life to treat chronic soft tissue problems and so on. As far as injecting things, it's always very controversial. A cortisone injection will enable you to reduce pain and inflammation so you can do a proper rehab program. So it's certainly not a sort of an end in itself, if you like. And it always worries me that doctors do a cortisone injections and say, just rest for six weeks and you'll be fine from your tensile or whatever... Right, yeah.

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