You might feel a brief sting from the needle, but discomfort should be minimal. Rest assured, our medical professionals specializing in trigger point injections take great care to minimize any discomfort.
How Trigger Point Injections Work
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Locate Your Trigger Point
Your Balanced Flow Wellness medical provider works with you to pinpoint the tension causing your pain or discomfort.
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Insert the Needle
Next, your provider inserts a fine needle into the trigger point and injects a saline-lidocaine solution.
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Embrace Release & Relief
By relaxing your trigger point, the injection improves blood flow and reduces inflammation, giving many patients immediate and lasting relief.
Resolve Muscle Tension & Rediscover Comfort
Injuries, poor posture, and chronic stress can lead to the development of tight, knotted muscles—also known as trigger points—that cause persistent pain and limit your range of motion. At Balanced Flow Wellness, we offer trigger point injections in Chicago to target these tense areas directly. Using a combination of lidocaine and saline, these injections work by numbing and relaxing the affected muscles, helping to break the pain cycle and restore normal function. Treatments are quick, minimally invasive, and often provide both immediate and long-lasting relief, making them an effective option for many types of musculoskeletal discomfort.
Because our physical therapy services are medically supervised, we’re able to provide trigger point injections and rehabilitation in one location—eliminating the need for multiple appointments at different clinics. This integrated approach not only saves time and stress, but also enhances the effectiveness of your care by allowing us to coordinate pain relief with targeted physical therapy interventions. Whether you’re recovering from an injury, managing a chronic condition, or addressing long-term muscle tension, our team is here to deliver comprehensive, medically-supported treatment that helps you heal faster and move with confidence.
Benefits of Trigger Point Injections
Fast-acting & long-term pain relief
Improved muscle and tissue mobility
Reduces referred pain (pain elsewhere in the body)
Speeds up physical rehabilitation progress
Quick, minimally invasive procedure
Tailored to individual concerns
What to Expect: Trigger Point Injections
Step 1: Initial Consultation
Because we're committed to balanced wellness, we take a whole-body approach to treating chronic pain and discomfort. At your first appointment with us, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of your medical history, lifestyle habits, and health goals. This holistic mindset helps us uncover the root cause of your pain so we can provide effective care.
Step 2: Receiving Injections
At your appointment, a licensed medical practitioner will identify tense areas of your body linked to your persistent pain. Then they gently insert the needle into the located trigger point and deliver a saline-lidocaine solution. The lidocaine numbs the area, giving you immediate relief while the saline provides fluid volume to expand and break up adhesions in your tissues and allow them to relax.
Additionally, penetrating the muscle knot with a needle activates your body's self-repair process, enhancing its ability to restructure tight tissues. Trigger point injections take less than 5 minutes and require no downtime.
Additionally, penetrating the muscle knot with a needle activates your body's self-repair process, enhancing its ability to restructure tight tissues. Trigger point injections take less than 5 minutes and require no downtime.
Step 3: Physical Therapy
Trigger points occur when tissues build up to reinforce themselves along lines of stress creating a "knot" that leads to the pain you feel. Injections offer initial relief from breaking up those knots, but lasting results require retraining of the affected tissues. Therefore, we typically follow trigger point injections with a physical therapy session.
Through targeted movements, your provider helps restore proper tissue alignment for healthier, more efficient movement. Not only does this process relieve your pain, it also prevents it from happening again.
Through targeted movements, your provider helps restore proper tissue alignment for healthier, more efficient movement. Not only does this process relieve your pain, it also prevents it from happening again.
Learn More About How We Can Help
We offer many wellness services in addition to trigger point injections in Chicago. Use our treatment planning tool to discover which services may be a good fit for you.
Frequently Asked Questions About Trigger Point injections in Chicago
Frequently Asked Questions
The benefits can last for weeks to months, depending on your condition, lifestyle, and physical therapy progress. We typically see the best results in 1 to 3 injection treatments, based on the severity of your condition.
Trigger point injections are “wet needling”; “wet” simply denotes the injection of fluid. Dry needling uses the needle technique without injecting any liquid, generally making them less impactful than trigger point injections. Not all providers have the scope of licensing required to perform trigger point injections, but we offer both dry needling and trigger point injections in Chicago to ensure our treatment selection meets your needs.
Our Balanced Approach to Wellness
Our goal at Balanced Flow Wellness is to help you restore, elevate, and optimize your health in every aspect. We believe in implementing sustainable changes to your lifestyle that maximize all areas of wellness. Our approach works best with those who are willing to take active steps toward well-being.
