A Study to Analyse the Immediate Effect of Dry Needling and Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Therapy on Hand Grip Strength

Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre, Medina, Saudi Arabia

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Muscle Weakness Condition

Treatments: Combination Product: Dry needling and Extra corporeal Shock wave therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04645758

Rct001

Details and patient eligibility

About

An argument to analyse the Immediate effect of dry needling or extra corporeal shock wave therapy on hand grip strength in normal healthy individuals with a hypothesis of dry needling or shock wave on forearm muscles have influence on the hand grip strength.

Full description

After written consent obtained from all the participants randomization and allocation will be done with sealed non transparent envelopes and participants will be assign to two groups Dry needling(DN) and Extra corporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT).Pre and post data of hand grip strength measured with Jamar hand dynamometer.Post data shall be collected precisely after 1 hr of intervention from both groups.

Enrollment: 27 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 21 to 46 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• No pain on the visual analog scoring scale of 100 mm scale,
• Muscle power of 4+ on oxford manual muscle testing of forearm and wrist extrinsic and intrinsic muscles
• Full range of motion in all dominant upper extremity joints.

Exclusion criteria

• History of previous fractures of the dominant upper extremity,
• Teno-synovitis of flexor tendons ,
• Dequervains synovitis,
• Left hand dominance.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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27 participants in 2 patient groups

Dry Needling Group or (DN)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Dry needling for 5 mins on the flexor group of muscles of dominant forearm.

Treatment:

Combination Product: Dry needling and Extra corporeal Shock wave therapy

Extra corporeal Shockwave therapy Group or (ESWT)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Delivering of Shock wave pulses of 1250 at the energy intensity of 0.58 mj/mm2 on the flexor group of muscles of dominant forearm

Treatment:

Combination Product: Dry needling and Extra corporeal Shock wave therapy