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.
Dry needling is a western culture approach, while acupuncture is a Chinese medical tradition. Dry needling is used to define the non-injection needling. When it comes to injection needling, hypodermic needles are used to inject chemicals or other agents like anesthesia into the tissue, while in dry needling there is no chemicals, needles are directed into the tissue to provide therapeutic effects.