Comparison of Dry Needling and Manual Pressure Release for Managing Low Back Pain

Foundation University Islamabad

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Dry needling; Procedure: Heat therapy; Procedure: Manual pressure release

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05680493

FUI/CTR/2022/20

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will compare the effect of dry needling and manual pressure in patients having low back pain in terms of pain and disability. There will be two groups ; experimental and control. Half of study group will receive dry needling session along with hot pack. Half of study group will receive manual pressure technique along with hot pack.

Full description

The study is Randomized Control Trail , which is being conducted in fauji foundation hospital and Foundation University College Of Rehabilitation (oct 2022-feb 2023) . Sample size of 50 individual was calculated using epitool with 95% confidence interval (CI), and power 80%. sample will be collected through pilot study .

both groups will recieve conventional physiotherapy protocol (hot pack) Assessment will be done on baseline, and 4th week .

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:-

• age between 30-60
• pateint with subacute and chronic low back pain at least last 6 months.
• pateint with active MTrps.

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient with fibromyalgia
• pregnant females
• patient with chronic diseases (osteoporosis, lungs disease and diabetes)
• patient with musculoskeletal injuries
• patient that are using any medication to relief pain like analgesic or muscle relaxants
• Any treatment for back pain in same period of research.
• patient having any radiculopathies or discogenic low back pain

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Dry needling

Experimental group

Description:

Total 12 sessions of trigger point dry needling at lumbar muscles with Hot pack,with 3 sessions per week

Treatment:

Procedure: Dry needling

Procedure: Heat therapy

manual pressure release

Active Comparator group

Description:

Hot pack for 15 min then manual pressure release

Treatment:

Procedure: Manual pressure release

Procedure: Heat therapy