Medical professionals sometimes use an ultrasound to guide the injection to make sure they place the needle in the right location. They may inject multiple trigger points during your session.

He says the increase in claims of injections with ultrasound will cause Medicare to investigate the applications and eventually to disprove some of them. Dr. Golfed predicts trigger point injections ...

and are typically delivered via ultrasound-guided injection into the trigger point. Although site injury is common, serious complications are rare. 1 A recent article by Soriano et al describes a ...

Fusco P et al. Ultrasound-guided Dry Needling Treatment of Myofascial Trigger Points for Piriformis Syndrome Management: A Case Series. Journal of Chiropractic Medicine . September 2018.