Dry Needling for Meralgia Paresthetica?

It’s Q&A Day at 10almonds!

Have a question or a request? We love to hear from you!

In cases where we’ve already covered something, we might link to what we wrote before, but will always be happy to revisit any of our topics again in the future too—there’s always more to say!

As ever: if the question/request can be answered briefly, we’ll do it here in our Q&A Thursday edition. If not, we’ll make a main feature of it shortly afterwards!

So, no question/request too big or small

❝Could you address dry needling, who should administer it, and could it be a remedy for meralgia paresthetica? If not, could you speak to home-based remedies for meralgia paresthetica? Thank you?❞

We’ll need to take a main feature some time to answer this one fully, but we will say some quick things here:

• Dry needling, much like acupuncture, has been found to help with pain relief.
• Meralgia paresthetica, being a neuropathy, may benefit from some things that benefit people with peripheral neuropathy, such as lion’s mane mushroom. There is definitely not research to support this hypothesis yet though (so far as we could find anyway; there is plenty to support lion’s mane helping with nerve regeneration in general, but nothing specific for meralgia paresthetica).

Some previous articles you might enjoy meanwhile:

• Pinpointing The Usefulness Of Acupuncture
• Science-Based Alternative Pain Relief
• Peripheral Neuropathy: How To Avoid It, Manage It, Treat It
• What Does Lion’s Mane Actually Do, Anyway?

Take care!