Which Clinic in Jacksonville Offers Dry Needling for Sports Injuries?

We treat a lot of athletes at Full Swing Healthcare, and dry needling is one of the tools we use most. Sports injuries create specific trigger point patterns that develop around the overloaded or injured tissue. Those patterns do not resolve on their own, even after the structural injury heals, and they are often why athletes feel like they never fully get back to where they were.

What Sport-Specific Patterns Look Like

Golfers consistently develop paraspinal and rotator cuff trigger points from the rotational demands of the swing. Runners develop TFL, IT band, and calf patterns from repetitive hip flexion loading. Tennis and pickleball players develop forearm extensor trigger points from grip and racket mechanics. Each sport produces predictable patterns, and knowing those patterns lets us treat more efficiently.

Dr. Muren is TPI Certified, which gives him a specific framework for evaluating the physical limitations that create golf-related injury patterns. That carries over to how he evaluates other rotational sport athletes as well.

Getting Back Versus Getting Better

We had a baseball pitcher from Jacksonville University come to us mid-season with posterior shoulder pain and a loss of velocity. His MRI was normal. The problem was a cluster of trigger points in his infraspinatus and posterior capsule region that had developed from accumulative overuse during the season. He was treating the pain with ice and rest. That was managing it. Two sessions of dry needling to the posterior rotator cuff musculature and he was pitching without restriction by the following week.

Trigger points that develop from overuse do not respond to rest the way structural injuries do. They need to be directly addressed.

Combining With Chiropractic

For most athletes, we combine dry needling with chiropractic assessment of the joint mechanics that are driving the overuse pattern. If a runner has an SI joint restriction that is altering her stride and overloading the TFL and IT band, needling the TFL without fixing the SI joint means she will be back with the same problem in six weeks. We look at the whole picture.

No Referral Needed

You can come directly to us. We are at 13770 Beach Blvd #4 in Jacksonville. Call (904) 539-3352 and we will get you in.

Written by

Dr. Cody Muren, DC

Doctor of Chiropractic · Certified Acupuncturist