Database	Date of Search	Search Strategy	Results
PubMed	22 September 2024	((“Neck Pain”[Mesh] OR “Cervical Pain”[Mesh]) AND (“Dry Needling”[Mesh] OR “deep dry needling” OR “Superficial dry needling”)) AND (“Trigger Points”[Mesh] OR “Myofascial Pain Syndromes”[Mesh])	22
Web of Science	22 September 2024	TS = (“Neck pain” OR “Cervical pain”) AND TS = (“deep dry needling” OR “Superficial dry needling”) AND TS = (“Trigger point*” OR “Myofascial pain syndrome”)	20
Scopus	22 September 2024	(TITLE-ABS-KEY (“Neck pain” OR “Cervical pain”)) AND (TITLE-ABS-KEY (“deep dry needling” OR “Superficial dry needling”)) AND (TITLE-ABS-KEY (“Trigger point*” OR “Myofascial pain syndrome”))	12
Embase	22 September 2024	(‘neck pain’ OR ‘cervical pain’:ab,ti,kw) AND (‘deep dry needling’ OR ‘superficial dry needling’:ab,ti,kw) AND (‘trigger point*’ OR ‘myofascial pain syndrome’:ab,ti,kw)	14
Google Scholar	22 September 2024	intitle:(“Neck pain” OR “Cervical pain”) AND intitle:(“deep dry needling” OR “Superficial dry needling”) AND intitle:(“Trigger point*” OR “Myofascial pain syndrome”)	51
Dimensions	22 September 2024	(“Neck pain” OR “Cervical pain”) AND (“deep dry needling” OR “Superficial dry needling”) AND (“Trigger point*” OR “Myofascial pain syndrome”)	10
OpenAlex	22 September 2024	(“Neck pain” OR “Cervical pain”) AND (“deep dry needling” OR “Superficial dry needling”) AND (“Trigger point*” OR “Myofascial pain syndrome”)	63