Dry Needling Versus Stretching for Muscle Extensibility

University of Zaragoza

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis, Hip

Treatments: Other: Dry needling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04400825

CEIm1955

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent chronic disease in the world. Currently several authors have shown the presence of active myofascial trigger points (MTrP) in the muscles surrounding the hip joint that reproduce the symptoms of the patients with hip OA.

Despite of the beneficial effects that have shown may conservative non-pharmacological treatments, there is a lack of studies evaluating the effects of the conservative treatments on muscle extensibility.

According to the new paradigm about the presence of MTrPs, the investigators decided to conduct a randomized clinical trial to compare the effects of DN intervention and stretching protocol on muscle extensibility in patients with hip OA.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• unilateral hip OA diagnosed medically with a X-Ray tess and following the American College of Rheumatology Criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Secondary osteoarthritis by a traumatism, Paget disease, inflammatory or metabolic disease, congenital diseases etc.
• Vascular or neurological disease.
• Musculoskeletal pathologies in lumbar spine, pelvis or lower limbs
• DN contraindications or fear of needles

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Dry needling

Experimental group

Description:

Dry needling of 3 active MTrPs at most.

Treatment:

Other: Dry needling

Stretching

Active Comparator group

Description:

Stretching of the main hip flexors (rectus femoris, iliopsoas and tensor fasciae latae)

Treatment:

Other: Dry needling