Dynamic Plantar Pressures Changes After Dry Needling in Flexor Digitorum Brevis Versus Non Emission Laser

Mayuben Private Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Flatfoot

Treatments: Other: Bilateral dry needling in latent trigger points of the Flexor digitorum Brevis Muscle; Other: Bilateral non emission Laser in latent trigger points of the Flexor digitorum Brevis Muscle

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05875415

1912202200923-B

Details and patient eligibility

About

Thirty-six subjects randomly distributed between a dry needling intervention group and a control group whose intervention is a non-emission laser. All the subjects will be measured before and after the interventions of each group. The measurements will be made on a pressure platform to record the dynamic footprint variables.

Full description

Thirty-six subjects randomly distributed between a dry needling intervention group and a control group whose intervention is a non-emission laser. All the subjects will be measured before and after the interventions of each group. The measurements will be made on a pressure platform to record the dynamic footprint variables of the first step of both feet.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Individuals must have latent trigger point in Flexor Brevis Digitorum muscles with no other pathologies

Exclusion criteria

• Previous lower extremities surgery.
• History of lower extremities injury with residual symptoms (pain, "giving-away" sensations) within the last year.
• Leg-length discrepancy more than 1 cm
• Balance deficits (determined by oral questionnaire regarding falls)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

Bilateral dry needling in Flexor Brevis Digitorum in subjects with latent trigger point

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Bilateral dry needling in latent trigger points of the Flexor digitorum Brevis Muscle

Bilateral non emission Laser in latent trigger points of the Flexor digitorum Brevis Muscle

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Bilateral non emission Laser in latent trigger points of the Flexor digitorum Brevis Muscle