Dry Needling and Pain Education in the Treatment of Chronic Neck Pain

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Neck

Treatments: Other: Dry needling; Other: Conventional treatment; Other: Pain neuroscience education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03095365

03/2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

to compare the effects on pain, disability and psychological factors of the combination of MTrP dry needling and pain neuroscience education to MTrPs dry needing alone and control electrotherapy usual care in patients with chronic neck pain.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mechanical neck pain for at least 12 weeks
• 10% or higher on the Neck Disability Index questionnaire
• 20mm or higher on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of neck pain
• Presence of at least one active myofascial trigger point

Exclusion criteria

• Neck pain associated with whiplash injuries
• Medical red flag history (i.e., tumour, fracture, metabolic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis)
• Neck pain with cervical radiculopathy
• Neck pain associated with externalized cervical disc herniation
• Fibromyalgia syndrome
• Previous neck surgery
• Neck pain accompanied by vertigo caused by vertebrobasilar insufficiency or accompanied by non-cervicogenic headaches

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

Dry needling

Active Comparator group

Description:

Received Dry needling in the neck muscles.

Treatment:

Other: Dry needling

Conventional treatment

Active Comparator group

Description:

the participants received the conventional treatment for non-specific neck pain.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional treatment

Dry needling and pain neuroscience education

Experimental group

Description:

Received the same treatment as dry needling group and pain education.

Treatment:

Other: Pain neuroscience education

Other: Dry needling