OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacy of two different dry needling (DN) techniques (deep dry needling & peppering) in myofascial pain syndrome (MPS). METHODS Seventy-two patients, who were diagnosed as MPS at our outpatient clinic were randomly assigned into two groups as deep dry needling (DDN) and peppering. All patients were evaluated four times as: before the treatment and 1-5-12 weeks afte...

Background. This study purposed to validate the use of artificial neural network (ANN) models for predicting myofascial pain control after dry needling and to compare the predictive capability of ANNs with that of support vector machine (SVM) and multiple linear regression (MLR). Methods. Totally 400 patients who have received dry needling treatments completed the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) at ...

Evidence from clinical reports has indicated that acupuncture has a promising effect on mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, it is still unknown that by what way acupuncture can modulate brain networks involving the MCI. In the current study, multivariate Granger causality analysis (mGCA) was adopted to compare the interregional effective connectivity of brain networks by varying needling ...

Objective. To identify the optimum treatment protocol for insomnia among auricular, body, and abdominal needling methods. Methods. A three-factor (3 needling protocols) and three-level experimental scheme was designed based on orthogonal method. 54 patients of insomnia differentiated as internal harassment of phlegm-heat syndrome were given two courses of acupuncture treatment (each with 20 tim...

BACKGROUND Acupuncture is applied for treating numerous conditions in children, but few studies have examined the safe needling depth of acupoints in the pediatric population. In this study, we investigated the depths to which acupuncture needles can be inserted safely in the upper back acupoints of children and the variations in safe depth according to sex, age, weight, and body mass index (BM...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this prospective case series was to describe the outcomes of a set of rock climbers with lateral epicondylalgia (LE) treated with manual therapy directed at the cervical spine, elbow, and wrist as well as trigger point (TrP) dry needling and kinesio tape. METHODS Nine consecutive rock climbers presenting to physical therapy with a diagnosis of LE were included. At bas...

Striae distensae: Are scars on the skin that have an atrophic linear depression, produced by stretching of skin. Causes include puberty, pregnancy, mechanical stress, hormonal, genetic role and cachectic states medications. Treatment occurred enhancing collagen production or reducing vascularity. Micro needling (MN) is a modern therapeutic option in dermatology. MN instruments automated micro d...

Abstract Recent scientific evidence suggests that one of the causes myofascial pain syndromes responsible for occurrence chronic headaches, among other things, may be increased or impaired with trigger point therapy. This paper presents results a non-systematic literature review on The analysis shows clear increase in interest invasive treatment techniques. Invasive therapy consists primarily u...