COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFICACY OF HYALURONIC ACID, DRY NEEDLING AND COMBINED TREATMENT IN PATELLAR OSTEOARTHRITIS

Universidad Católica de Ávila

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Device: hyauluronic acid; Device: dry needling; Other: ultrasound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03743818

UCAvila

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized clinical trial in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Sixty patients will be evaluated, divided in three groups (20 in each). One group A will be treated by dry needling in the vast internal, other group B will be treated with a standardized treatment protocol (electrotherapy and manual therapy), and group C will be treated with hialuronic acid. The investigators want to observe which technique is the most effective in osteoarthritis.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with knee pain and diagnosed of osteoarthritis knee and confirm RNM
• More 18 years.
• Less 55 years

Exclusion criteria

• More 55 years.
• Less 18 years.
• mental dysfunction
• those who have any type of complication that can cause myofascial or neuropathic pain in the lower limb, such as lumbo-sacral radiculopathy, neuropraxia, neurothymesis, axonotmesis, or meralgia paraesthetica; who have any condition generally considered to be a factor in perpetuating TrPs, such as fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, or iron deficiency; and patients who may have a fear of needles (belonephobia) will be excluded.

Patients with lower limb dysmetries of 0.50 cm or more were also excluded from this study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

dry needling

Experimental group

Description:

dry needling in trigger point in vastus medialis of quadriceps

Treatment:

Device: dry needling

standardized treatment protocol

Active Comparator group

Description:

in the standardized treatment protocol the investigators including ultrasound, tens, and isometric quadriceps contractions

Treatment:

Other: ultrasound

hialuronic acid

Active Comparator group

Description:

infiltration of hyaluronic acid in the affected knee

Treatment:

Device: hyauluronic acid