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A New Treatment Modality in Piriformis Syndrome: Ultrasound Guided Dry Needling Treatment

Author(s) -

Fatih Bağcıer

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

ağrı - the journal of the turkish society of algology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 2458-9446

pISSN - 1300-0012

DOI - 10.14744/agri.2019.92170

Subject(s) - dry needling , modality (human–computer interaction) , piriformis syndrome , medicine , treatment modality , ultrasound , radiology , surgery , computer science , acupuncture , artificial intelligence , pathology , sciatica , alternative medicine

Piriformis syndrome is a painful entrapment neuropathy caused by compression of the sciatic nerve under piriformis muscle for structural or acquired reasons. Myofascial pain syndrome is the most common cause. There are physical therapy modalities, stretching exercises, injection therapies and medical treatment approaches.In this case, we planned to demonstrate a different perspective to the treatment of piriformis syndrome with the ultrasound-guided dry needling treatment.

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