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 broad term used to differentiate â non-injection â needling from the practice of â injection needling â which utilises a hyperdermic syringe and usually involves the injection of an agent such as saline , local anaesthetic or corticosteroid into the tissue or specific anatomical structures . In contrast to this , dry needling ...