Full Swing Healthcare on Beach Blvd offers dry needling for back pain, and it’s one of the most consistently effective treatments we provide. A thin filament needle reaches the deep lumbar trigger points that stretching, massage, and surface-level manual therapy simply can’t access on their own.
Why Back Pain Keeps Coming Back
Most patients who walk in with chronic low back pain have already tried everything. Stretching. Massage. Maybe chiropractic care somewhere else. Things improve briefly, then the pain returns. The missing piece is almost always the deep paraspinal muscles, specifically the lumbar multifidus and surrounding paraspinal tissue, that have been locked up in trigger point patterns for months or even years.
Those muscles sit too deep for external pressure to reach effectively. A foam roller does almost nothing to them. Even skilled manual therapy loses access before it gets to the source. A dry needling filament gets there directly.
What We Find and How We Treat It
Before placing a single needle, Dr. Cody Muren palpates the lumbar and thoracolumbar region to map which trigger points are active that day. The pattern shifts as it resolves, what’s firing in session one may look completely different by session three, so we reassess every visit rather than running the same protocol on autopilot.
For chronic presentations, we frequently pair needle placement with electrical stimulation (e-stim). The current produces a sustained contraction-and-release cycle in the muscle that goes deeper than mechanical needle placement alone, accelerating how quickly the tissue resets.
A Real Example from Baymeadows
A teacher from the Baymeadows area came to us after eight months of low back pain. She’d been doing physical therapy for six of those months, core strengthening, hip mobility work, and it was helping, but never fully. A cluster of trigger points in her right lumbar multifidus had been there so long they’d essentially become her new baseline. Three dry needling sessions cleared that pattern. Because the rehab work was already in place, she bounced back fast once the restriction released.
That combination is typically the most efficient path: dry needling clears the myofascial restriction, strengthening work keeps it from coming back.
Scheduling and Insurance
We’re located at 13770 Beach Blvd #4, Jacksonville, FL 32224, easy to reach from the Beaches, Baymeadows, and the Southside. Call us at (904) 539-3352 and we’ll verify whether dry needling is covered under your plan before your first visit.
- First visit (includes full exam): $115
- Follow-up visits: $50
- We verify insurance coverage before you come in, no surprises