Dry Needling Effectiveness and Post-punction Pain

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Status

Completed

Conditions

Neck Pain

Treatments

Procedure: Dry needling

Procedure: Placebo needling

Procedure: Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation.

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04148469

urjc20-13

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this estudy was to dertermine if the application of Transcutaneous Nerve Stimiulation (TENS) current have an hypoalgesic effect on pattientes suffering from miofascial neck pain, compared with a only dry needling treatment. Psicological varaibles were also mesured in order to determine how they change after each treatment.

Full description

All patients suffered from mechanical neck pain and were randomized into three groups of treatment. A doible blinded control was carryed out. The main outcome messures were Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). The scondary outcome messures were Pressure Pain hreshold (PPT) and Active Range of Movement (ROM). Also psicologicla messures were taken, like Neck Dissability Index, Level of stress and ansiety, Fear Pain and Pain Avoidance Strategies.

Enrollment

68 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Mechanical Neck pain of at least 6 months.
VAS 2 or greather.
Existance of miofascial trigger point in trapezius muscle assesed by an expert PT.

Exclusion criteria

Neck pain due secondary to ostheoporosis, metastasis, neoplasias, fractures, infections, cervical stenosis or infexious procces.
Headache secondary to medular compression presenting one o the following signs: abnormal sensitivity, hiperreflexia, clonus, spread weakness, cervical hernia.
Neck pain with radiculopathy.
Whiplash.
Vertebrobasilar syndrome.
Dizzyness.
Pregnancy.
Having received dry needling treatment before.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

68 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

dry needling and TENS

Experimental group

Description:

A dry needling treatment was performed on trapezius trigger point number 2, and just after thar, a TENS curretn was applied. Patients will be reassed on fourth day after treatment.

Treatment:

Procedure: Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation.

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

A placebo dry needling was performed on trapezius trigger point number 2. Patients will be reassed on fourth day after treatment.

Treatment:

Procedure: Placebo needling

dry needling

Experimental group

Description:

A dry needling treatment was performed on trapezius trigger point number 2. Patients will be reassed on fourth day after treatment.