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.
Normally a needle is inserted into the soft tissue from 30 seconds to two minutes. Dry needling can be applied both deep to the muscle and superficial to soft tissue, depending on the method employed. Administration of dry needling can cause some pain, bruising, and bleeding.