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    1. Welcome to the Dry Needling Literature Repository 👋

    1. Fernández-de-Las-Peñas 2021 Safety of Dry Needling of the Pronator Teres Muscle

    2. Folli 2020 US Skin-to-Rib Measurement

    3. Furuse 2013 Case reports on adverse effects of acupuncture and moxibustion

    4. Halle 2016 Pertinent dry needling considerations for minimizing adverse effects–PART ONE

    5. Halle 2016 Pertinent dry needling considerations for minimizing adverse effects–part TWO

    6. Hannah 2016 Comparison on angles DN Multifidus

    7. Hayhoe 2002 Single-use acupuncture needles- scanning electron-microscopy of needle-tips

    8. Kearns 2018 Accuracy and safety of dry needle placement in the piriformis muscle

    9. Kearns 2019 perspectives on dry needling screening

    10. Lee 2011 An acute cervical epidural hematoma as a complication od DN

    11. López-Castellanos 2022 DN Iliocostalis Lumborum Safety Protocol

    12. López-de-Celis 2023 US vs paplation DN ulanra nerve

    13. McCulloch 2015 Acupuncture safety in patients receiving anticoagulants a SR

    14. McCutcheon 2011 Iatrogenic pneumothorax

    15. McDowell 2014 Acupuncture needling styles and reports of associated adverse reactions to acupuncture

    16. McManus 2018 Radial nerve injury following dry needling

    17. Muñoz 2022 Dry Needling and Antithrombotic Drugs

    18. Nadir 2017 Rare Complication Caused by Dry Needling Method- Tension Pneumothorax

    19. Ozden 2016 Eval sympathetic skin response to dry needling

    20. Poveda-Pagán 2018 Scanning electron microscopy examination of needle tips

    21. Snyder 2019 case report surgical removal of two needles

    22. Uboczne DN ADVERSE EVENTS AND COMPLICATIONS–

    23. Valera-Calero 2022 Regression model of safety for femoral triangle

    24. Wang-Price 2022 Validity and reliability of DN placement lumbar spine

    25. White 2001 Adverse events following acupuncture

    26. Xie 2014 Examination of surface conditions of needles

    27. Yargic 2019 Reflex anoxic seizures (RAS) during DN

    28. Ball 2019 Relative risk to the femoral nerve iliacus muscle

    29. Boyce 2020 Adverse events associated with therapeutic dry needling

    30. Brady 2014 Adverse events following TpDN

    31. Dalton 2022 Bilateral Pneumothoraces Following Dry Needling.

    32. Patel 2018 Dry Needling–Induced Pneumothorax

    33. Uzar 2018 Pneumo

    1. **New**Dunning 2014 DN: lit review with implications for CPGs

    2. **New** Akamatsu 2015 TPs: An Anatomical Substratum

    3. **NEW** Perreault 2022 EDN Mechanisms and Clinical Applications

    4. Analysis of Competencies for Dry Needling by Physical Therapists, 2015

    5. Current Athletic Training Educational Preparation for Dry Needling Current Athletic Training Educational Preparation for Dry Needling 2019

    1. 2020 Effects of DN on Tendon

    2. Felber 2021 DN increases antioxidant activity and grip force

    3. Hsieh 2011 Spinal cord mechanism involving DN

    4. Hsieh 2012 DN of TPs modulates the biochemicals pain_ inflammation_ and hypoxia

    5. Khandare 2022 Effects of US DN on properties

    6. Li 2019 biomarkers of pain and therapeutic targets od DN

    7. Li 2019 Proteins and Signaling Pathways afted DN

    8. Rossi_ 2017 spinal DN vs peripheral DN

    9. Seif 2025 effects of DN and spinal reflexes

    10. Sillevis 2019 Time effect for in-situ DN

    11. Skorupska 2015 vasodilatation after DN

    12. Sousad 2021 Injection or DN for msk Pain SR

    13. Tsikopoulos 2017 PRP compared to DN

    14. Wang 2014 Effects of temp during DN

    15. Wang 2016 Impact of needle diameter on DN Effect

    16. Perreault 2017 Is the Twitch Necessary

    17. Abbaszadeh-Amirdehi 2013 neurophysiological effects of DN

    18. Abbaszadeh-Amirdehi 2017 Therapeutic effects of DN

    19. Baldry 2002 Superficial vs deep DN

    20. Boyles 2015 Effectiveness of TpDN-SR

    21. Braithwaite 2020 methods in sham-controlled DN trials

    22. Cagnie 2012 influence of DN blood flow and oxygen

    23. Cagnie 2013 Physiologic effects of DN

    24. Chen 2001 Inhibitory effect of DN and SEA

    25. Chou 2012 Mechanisms of needling pain control

    26. Cross 2017 DN increases muscle thickness

    27. Cruz-Montecinos 2012 LTR and association with modified joint ROM

    1. Chys 2023 DN and Chronic Myofascial Pain

    2. Demirhan 2023 Impac of DN on pain and sleep

    3. Espejo-Antúnez 2017 DN in management MfTPs

    4. Fernández-de-Las-Peñas 2019 TpDN for myofascial pain syndrome

    5. Fernández-de-Las-Peñas 2021 The importance of LTR during DN

    6. Fogelman 2015 Efficacy of DN for tx myofascial pain

    7. Ga 2007 DN of TPs with and without spinal DN

    8. Gattie 2017 effectiveness of TpDN for MSK conditions SR

    9. Gerber 2017 Beneficial effects of DN myofascial pain

    10. Kalichman 2010 DN Management of MSK Pain

    11. Kietrys 2014 DN for Upper Quadrant Pain

    12. Manoharan 2019 DN In Myofascial Pain Syndrome

    13. Navarro-Santana 2022 Effects of DN on Central Pain Processing

    14. Raeissadat 2019 Comparison ozone:lidocaine vs DN

    15. Roberson 2019 A Safe Opioid DN?

    16. Tekin 2013 Effect of DN myofascial pain syndrome

    17. Téllez-García 2015 TNE and TpDN for chronic LBP

    18. Unverzagt 2015 DN for TP pain

    19. Valera-Calero 2022 Efficacy of DN for Fibromyalgia

    20. Vicente-Mampel 2021 effects of self-myofascial release to Dn

    21. Yehoshua 2022 DN Tx for acute myofascial pain

    22. Zha 2022 TP injections and DN effective in treating long COVID myalgia

    23. Rodríguez-Mansilla 2015 Effectiveness of DN and Myofascial Pain

    1. Brady 2024 Interventions to Reduce post needling soreness

    2. Shanmugam 2018 Effect of DN soreness on pain severity

    3. Tolbert 2025 Patient Percieved benfits and adverse events after DN

    4. Martin 2018 Post-needling DN Soreness

    5. Chonan 2008 effect of cryotherapy on postDN soreness

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