By Dr Sarah Jarvis | 28 Aug 2015. The swollen âglandsâ that you feel â most commonly on your neck when you have a throat infection â are called lymph glands or lymph nodes. They are connected by a complicated network of tubes called lymph channels, which run all over your body.
Dry needling is an invasive procedure in which a solid filament needle is inserted into the skin and muscle directly at a myofascial trigger point. A myofascial trigger point consists of multiple contraction knots, which are related to the production and maintenance of the pain cycle.
Donât be deceived by this title. Yes, trigger point dry needling (TDN) is within the scope of physical therapy. Yes, while there is a paucity of evidence, TDN probably works in some instances-likely more to âmeaning effectâ and placebo than anything else (which of course is fine but in states with informed consent forms it probably works as a nocebo).