Dry Needling and Therapeutic Exercise on Sleep in Individuals With Chronic Neck Pain and Sleep Disturbance

Mayo Clinic

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Sleep Disturbance

Neck Pain

Treatments

Other: Therapeutic Exercise

Procedure: Dry Needling

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06275074

23-007716

Details and patient eligibility

About

Feasibility study investigating the effects of dry needling on individuals with chronic neck pain and sleep disturbance.

Full description

The purpose of this pilot study is to determine the feasibility of a large randomized clinical trial (RCT) which aims to investigate the effects of dry needling (DN) in addition to therapeutic exercise (TE) on sleep duration and quality in patients with chronic neck pain (CNP) and sleep disturbance (SD). Specifically, the objective is to explore feasibility of a study protocol and examine the preliminary data of a small sample size for the effectiveness of DN and TE for individuals with CNP and SD to determine effect size of the intervention.

Enrollment

28 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Neck pain lasting greater than 3 months 28,29
Age: 18-75 years
Presence of sleep disturbance - to be defined as a score ≥ 8 on the Insomnia Severity Index
Ability to understand study procedures and to comply with them for the entire length of the study

Exclusion criteria

Previous surgery to the neck or thoracic spine
Central nervous system disorders
Systemic joint disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis)
Infection
Cancer
Raynaud's disease
Pregnancy
Immunocompromised disease (e.g., diabetes mellitus, HIV, AIDS, lupus)
Insufficient English-language skills to complete all questionnaires.
Contraindications to dry needling:
- Presence of needle phobia
- History of abnormal reaction to needling or injection
- History of bleeding disorder (e.g., current anticoagulant therapy or known thrombocytopenia)