Effectiveness Of DN and STM Combined With Self-Stretching for Management of Calf and Heel Pain

Superior University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Heel Pain Syndrome

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Dry Needling; Diagnostic Test: Self Stretching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05810818

DPT/Batch-Fall18/520

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine the effectiveness of dry needling and soft tissue mobilization with self-stretching for the management of calf and heel pain. In our topic pain and physical dysfunction are our variables

Enrollment: 54 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients will be between the ages of 25 to 60 years.
• Female and males.
• History of heel and calf pain.
• Pain level moderate .
• Trigger point / inactive trigger points.
• Acute stage patients.

Exclusion criteria

• Phobias like injections or needles.
• Unwilling patients
• Patients on anticoagulant medicines.
• Patients with RA
• Fibromyalgia syndrome.
• Pateint with recent trauma and surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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54 participants in 2 patient groups

Dry needling along stretches and soft tissues therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Dry Needling

stretching and soft tissue mobilization

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Self Stretching