Background: Wet needling uses hollow-bore needles to deliver corticosteroids, anesthetics,
sclerosants, botulinum toxins, or other agents. In contrast, dry needling requires the insertion …

Dry needling is a common treatment technique in orthopedic manual physical therapy.
Although various dry needling approaches exist, the more common and best supported …

This exciting new publication is the first authoritative resource on the market with an
exclusive focus on Trigger Point ((TrP) dry needling. It provides a detailed and up-to-date …

Background: Trigger point dry needling (TDN) is commonly used to treat musculoskeletal
pain related to myofascial trigger points (MTrPs). To date, no systematic review of high …

Objective The main objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine
the short-, medium-, and long-term effectiveness of dry needling (DN) applied by physical …

Study Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Background An increasing number of
physical therapists in the United States and throughout the world are using dry needling to …

Myofascial pain is a common syndrome seen by family practitioners worldwide. It can affect
up to 10% of the adult population and can account for acute and chronic pain complaints. In …

A pragmatic, single blind, randomised, controlled trial was conducted to test the hypothesis
that superficial dry needling (SDN) together with active stretching is more effective than …

Question What is the effectiveness and what are the adverse effects. Design Systematic
review with meta-analysis. Participants Patients with shoulder or upper extremity pain or …

Objective This systematic review of randomized controlled trials aimed to examine the
effectiveness of dry needling in the treatment of myofascial trigger points and to explore the …