What is it about?
The report describes the management of a patient who complained of numbness and tingling with shoulder movements. Those complaints were relieved after dry needling to shoulder muscles.
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Why is it important?
Current literature offers little description of muscular trigger points causing numbness or tingling in the arm although this is seen frequently in practice. This report offers one explanation through examination and subsequent treatment with dry needling for these complaints. This, of course, is a case report so no cause-and-effect conclusions can be made, but it could support larger experimental trials in the future.
Perspectives
As a clinician, I was frustrated by the lack of evidence to support my hypothesis of a muscular trigger point referring numbness and tingling. While the description of this patient supports that trigger points can refer these sensations, further work must be done to infer a cause-and-effect relationship.
elizabeth lane
University of Utah
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This page is a summary of: Complaints of Upper Extremity Numbness and Tingling Relieved With Dry Needling of the Teres Minor and Infraspinatus: A Case Report, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, April 2017, Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT),
DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2017.7055.
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