Verrucae / Dry needling
Verrucae / Dry needling
Dry needling is an innovative and highly effective treatment for stubborn and recalcitrant verrucae. Most treatments, like freezing, burning, or chemical caustics work by creating a thermal or chemical burn in and around the verruca. This increases the chance of the verruca resolving by creating lots of inflammation and swelling around the area.
Dry needling is different. By disrupting each individual papilli in the verruca and creating a portal from the viral tissue to the adipose tissue, It allows the immune system to attack the lesion directly. In this way treating a single lesion (usually the "mother" lesion) can cause spontaneous remission in any / all satellite lesions. It has been reported to be highly effective, even for longstanding lesions of ten years or more and has been effective when other treatments have failed.
Unlike treatments like caustics, which can need dozens of applications to be effective (involving considerable inconvenience and cost), dry needling only requires one, very occasionally two, applications making ideal for busy people. It also requires no bulky dressing to be left on, you can go swimming the next day if you like!
It is carried out painlessly under local anesthetic (see Painless Podiatry) and most people report only minor soreness for a few days.
We're so confident in the effectiveness of this treatment that if it does not work first time, we'll do the second application absolutely free. Thats how good this treatment is.
Dry Needling has been around for 40 years. It was first described in a medical journal in America in 1969 and is used routinely on that side of the Atlantic. It has only recently crossed the water, which is why very few Podiatrists offer it.
If you have a verruca you had given up on ever getting rid of, don't waste any more money at the chemist! Call for an assessment appointment now and sort it out once and for all!