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 or Needle Therapy is a way to treat chronic pain conditions in which a physical therapist makes use of filament needles which he or she inserts through the skin into the affected muscle for trigger point release. Know how is dry needling or needle therapy done, its benefits, side effects and medical conditions that it can treat.