Dry Needling is the most powerful tool Physical Therapists and Athletic Trainers have at their disposal to regulate the autonomic nervous system toward homeostasis is the thoughtful implementation of dry needling, specifically focused on treating the autonomic nervous system itself. One of the highest leverage interventions Physical Therapists and Athletic Trainers can perform is removing as much tissue pathology throughout the body as possible, while concomitantly targeting the parasympathetic portion of the autonomic nervous system.

This maximally induces autonomic nervous system homeostasis, allowing the mind and body full access to their awesome, innate healing powers. The problem is, these magical healing powers become concealed from use, and are often hijacked and used against us, secondary to chronic sympathetic autonomic hyperactivity.

Sympathetic Autonomic Nervous System Hyperactivity & Muscle Contraction

Chronic sympathetic autonomic hyperactivity leads to excessive acetylcholine, diminished acetylcholine esterase, and excessive intracellular calcium, making it easier for muscles to contract. At certain concentrations, these factors make it next to impossible for sarcomeres to relax, creating a detrimental feedback loop where muscles hurt, they contract more, get more hypoxic, accumulate more pain amplifying chemicals, continue to shorten, hurt even more, and the cycle continues. Unless you do something to stop it!

Chronic sympathetic hyperactivity alters the way muscle epimysium responds to acetylcholine, a neuromodulator responsible for initiating the sodium potassium pump to depolarize sarcomeres in order to facilitate muscle contraction. Hyperactive sympathetics make the entire muscle lining receptive to acetylcholine, instead of just the synaptic clefts. With excessive concentrations of acetylcholine and the entire of the epimysium receptive to it, chemical muscle shortening commences, on top of the active electrical contraction already present secondary to hyperactive sympathetics.

Chronic sympathetic autonomic hyperactivity disrupts numerous pathways responsible for maintaining autonomic nervous system health and homeostasis. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, gut-brain-axis (enteric nervous system & brain connected by the vagus nerve), and the trigeminocervical complex all lose self-regulatory capability in the presence of a chronically hyperactive sympathetics. If these autonomic pathways depart from homeostasis for too long, our hormones, peptides, neuromodulators, pain pathways, and every other aspect of our neurophysiology go haywire, forcing the autonomic nervous system farther from homeostasis, into more sympathetic hyperactivity, which reciprocally inhibits parasympathetic activity.

The loss of enough homeostasis, for enough time, can lead to just about any mental or physical impairment you can think of, including neurodegenerative disease, autoimmune disorder, mental health disorders, diabetes, idiopathic disease, and even spontaneous abduction by aliens. OK, maybe not the last one… Maybe…

Once an individual’s autonomic nervous system reaches its unique threshold for sympathetic hyperactivity, access to our innate healing powers get restricted, including the power of autonomic self-regulation. Once the autonomic nervous system gets to a certain reaches a certain level of dysfunction, it will continue to dysfunction indefinitely, as health continues to decline. And guess what that means people? More expensive drugs get prescribed to more sick people, Pharma makes more money, which they need to bribe more politicians, ensuring they all continue to profit directly off the destruction and devastation of health they themselves actively facilitate.

“Public Health” incentivizes and rewards doctors based on what allows the people in charge to retain power and control. Money. Curing disease and improving health means fewer sick people. Healthy people don’t spend money on medical care, making them nonprofitable, and therefore, irrelevant. Incentives determine outcomes. With a strong enough incentive in any system, regardless of what the system is intended to do, or what the system says it wants to do, the objective outcomes of the system are determined by the incentives. So, when a “healthcare” system negatively incentivizes public health, the only logical outcome to expect will be a direct result of the strongest incentive. More sick people = more money. Hey, in 2025, America is sicker, by far, than ever! Does that mean we win you guys???

The current standard of medical “care” for any person, with any impairment, is as follows:

1. You will be given pharmaceuticals to mask your symptoms based on subjective information you provide, without testing your blood for a single vitamin, omega-3, or anything other than the 14 markers included in the standard comprehensive metabolic blood panel, which is what health insurance agrees to cover. It also happens to be the same blood test we used in the 1960’s.
2. If symptoms improve, but cause side-effects, you will be prescribed another drug to take along with the first drug to mask the side-effects.
3. If your symptoms improve, or if they simply don’t get worse, you will be told to take that medication for life, based on zero objective data, zero critical thinking, with zero attempt at figuring out what is actually going on.
4. If your symptoms do not improve, another drug will be tried. If that doesn’t work, you will be told you have an untreatable, idiopathic disease you will be dealing with for the rest of life.

Dry Needling to Maximize Autonomic Homeostasis

Thoughtfully performed dry needling is the most powerful tool Physical Therapists have at their disposal to quickly and effectively regulate the autonomic nervous system and restore homeostasis. Without autonomic homeostasis, maintaining any semblance of health is unlikely, while achieving optimal health is neurophysiologically impossible. Remember, the overall effect of dry needling on the autonomic nervous system is sympathetic depression, parasympathetic dominance, and improved autonomic homeostasis. The overall efficacy of dry needling treatment is directly dependent on how much homeostasis we can restore to the patient’s chronically hyperactive sympathetic autonomic nervous system.

Almost all Physical Therapy and Athletic Training patients present with sympathetic hyperactivity. As do most Americans, for that matter, as 80% of the US population is overweight, obese, or morbidly obese, 100% of whom are living with chronic sympathetic autonomic nervous system hyperactivity, both a cause of, and resulting from, carrying around excessive adipose tissue.

If you think about it, mainstream medicine basically has zero ability, or incentive, to cure anything. Disease is not cured, it is managed, for life. Most treatments available today, at best, have the potential to temporarily mask symptoms of an underlying problem. Modern treatments in our “healthcare” system don’t address the underlying cause of any problem, on purpose. It is way more profitable to keep people sick for life. This way, patients get to take expensive medicine for life as their health continues to decline, requiring more pills, while Pharma and their paid politicians bankrupt the American public by using public tax dollars to fund the destruction of our public health, which powers their money-making machine. Mission accomplished!

Every tiny piece of normalized soft tissue secondary to needling removes stress from the autonomic nervous system, restores mitochondrial energy producing capability, improves cerebral blood perfusion, and helps normalize neuronal activity inside and outside the brain. If you restore enough energy to the autonomic nervous system, the mind and body are able to break free of chronic inhibition, to direct sufficient resources to fix ongoing problems.

Almost all “idiopathic” impairments have obvious causes that are totally resolvable. It’s just that Pharma has not yet patented a treatment, meaning they can’t make billions selling it, so they pretend any existing solution simply does not exist. If a doctor finds the solution, then proceeds to help their patients, heaven forbid, they will be viscously attacked by the media and “Public Health” agencies, while Pharma increases their bribe amount to the appropriate politicians and governing health agency to remove the offending doctor’s medical license to make sure they don’t help any more patients. Turns out, it’s way harder to sell expensive, experimental treatments and lifelong suffering when people know there are existing solutions that work, and don’t have devastating side effects.

The most common link between almost all “idiopathic” impairments, between all mental and physical impairment, is chronic sympathetic autonomic nervous system hyperactivity secondary to some combination of poor diet, vitamin and nutrient deficiency, lack of physical activity, lack of muscle mass, and insufficient energy producing capability secondary to an inadequate number of mitochondria needed to produce the ATP energy the brain and body require to heal. Rather than trying to fix specific impairments or symptoms, if we address the cause of the problem, the autonomic nervous system, we allow the brain and body to fix themselves.

Our brain and body know how to fix themselves far better than we ever will, but some combination of factors is inhibiting access to the required resources. If we can eliminate the inhibition blocking access to our healing powers, especially if we also supplement to attain optimal vitamin and nutrient levels, the extend of healing that I have witnessed seems far closer to wizard magic than any type of biologic healing assumed to be possible.

If the autonomic nervous system goes over your individual threshold for sympathetic activity, it loses the ability to self-regulate, leading to energy deficiency, among other things. Our cells start producing less ATP energy per molecule of glucose processed, energy demands cannot be met, everything gets hypoxic and inflamed, driving the sympathetic autonomic nervous system to further aggravation. Without sufficient energy availability, our systems must decide where to send and use the available energy because we no longer have enough energy to supply the demand.

I think of dry needling primarily as a brain treatment. A path to restore our innate superpowers. We are just using the soft tissues and nerves throughout the body as access points to affect various locations in the brain. The needle is a significant-enough amount of direct tissue stimulation to induce incredible homeostatic and neuroplastic alterations in the brain. Dry needling is one of the few treatments addressing the cause of the problem, along with the symptoms. I don’t know of any medical impairment where improved autonomic homeostasis does anything but help. Thoughtful dry needling, especially when synergistically combined with nutrition and supplementation, is the most powerful clinical tool we have at our disposal to restore autonomic nervous system homeostasis, the key to health.

Omega-3 Deficiency Guarantees Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction

• About 30% of the brain’s physical substance is made of omega-3’s.
• Per the CDC, 70% of adults and a stunning 95% of children are omega-3 deficient.
• 95% of the US population, including children, is also vitamin D-deficient, FYI.
• Omega-3’s are not optional nutrients. They are mandatory, foundational molecules the brain absolutely requires to restore and maintain autonomic nervous system homeostasis and health.
• If you are omega-3 deficient, your brain is trying to repair itself, draining significant energy resources in the attempt, but the energy is wasted. It’s like your car running out of gas, and you acting confused when the car fails to start after you decided to fill the tank up with sand instead of gasoline. The car runs on gas. No gas, car no worky. A third of the brain runs on omega-3’s. Stuffing yourself with ice cream may improve your mood, but the car won’t run until you put gas back in the tank.
• If we lack the fundamental building material required to repair and maintain brain and nerve function, it doesn’t matter if we have a tanker-truck of reserve ATP at the ready. It’s like trying to build a house with only the blueprint, when you lack the actual materials, the wood and nails you need to do anything useful with the blueprint.
• No wonder we’re seeing skyrocketing rates of depression, dementia, ADHD, and anxiety. These typically aren’t brain problems, not technically. They are often chronic vitamin and nutrient deficiencies, manifesting themselves as mental health impairments.

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