Effectiveness of DN Versus TU Along With Routine PT in Patients With for Chronic Neck Pain RCT

Superior University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Therapeutic ultrasound; Diagnostic Test: Dry needling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05868512

DPT/Batch-Fall18/528

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine the effectiveness of dry needling and therapeutic ultrasound for the treatment of chronic neck pain

Enrollment: 31 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 35 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The inclusion criteria will be office workers having pain sensation at neck for at least 4 months
• pain for 3-7 on NRS and with the limited or painful ROM.
• Age of the participants will be 20-35 years.
• Only those individuals will be included who are working in the field for more than 8 months and work for 6-8 hours per day.

Exclusion criteria

• The exclusion criteria were any other neurological conditions of cervical vertebra, cervical radiculopathy, any vascular disease, tumors or any other local infection

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Dry needling

Other group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Dry needling

therapeutic ultrasound

Experimental group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Therapeutic ultrasound