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 may be one component of treatment used in conjunction with other manual therapy techniques and therapeutic exercise. When performing dry needling, the desired reaction is a twitch response where the specific band of muscle involuntarily contracts in response to insertion of the needle.