Benefits of Dry Needling in Trigger Points on Autonomic Nervous System and Corporal Composition in Patients With Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Universidad de Almeria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fibromyalgia; Trigger Points

Treatments: Other: Electrical Stimulation Therapy; Other: Dry Needling Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02393352

UAL_435

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the benefits of dry needling in trigger points on autonomic nervous system, photoelectric plethysmography, body composition in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.

Full description

Dru needling can be developed on active trigger points. Myofascial trigger points can be active or latent. An active myofascial trigger point pain causes giving a specific pathological picture. We will conduct a location of myofascial trigger points following the illustrations location myofascial trigger points that indicate Travell and Simons both left-sided and right.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Fibromyalgia syndrome diagnosis.
• Aged from 18 to 65 years.
• No regular physical activity.
• Limitation of usual activities due to pain on at least 1 day in the previous 30 days.
• Agreement to attend evening therapy sessions.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe physical disability.
• Comorbid conditions (eg, morbid obesity, inflammatory diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, interstitial cystitis).
• Uncontrolled endocrine disorders (eg, hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, diabetes).
• Malignancy.
• Psychiatric.
• Illnesses (eg, schizophrenia or substance abuse).
• Medication usage other than as-needed analgesics (excluding long-term narcotics).
• History of surgery.
• History of whiplash injury.
• Presence of a score >9 points in the Beck Depression Inventory.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Dry Needling Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

The dry needling therapy will be applied on active trigger points in occipital muscle, splenius capitis, sternocleidomastoid muscle, scalene muscles, trapezius, supraspinatus, infraspinatus muscle, latissimus dorsi, iliocostalis muscle, multifidus muscles, and quadratus lumbourm muscles.

Treatment:

Other: Dry Needling Therapy

Electrical Stimulation Therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Diadynamic fixed current phase in active trigger points, with pulses of 10msec, and intervals of equal duration.

Treatment:

Other: Electrical Stimulation Therapy