Effectiveness of Dry Needling as a Treatment of Shoulder Myofascial Pain Syndrome in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Universidad de León

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Shoulder Pain; Puncture; Spinal Cord Injuries; Myofascial Pain Syndrome

Treatments: Procedure: Dry needling in infraspinatus muscle

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03709797

ULeon-020-2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Shoulder pain in people with spinal cord injury is one of the most prevalent in acute and chronic patients because of weakness in shoulder periarticular muscles, and also because of overuse of these part of the body in assistive devices.

This study aims to evidence if dry needling (a physiotherapy technique) is also useful in patients with spinal cord injury, and how long it could hold out without or less pain.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least one year after Spinal Cord Injury (chronic patients).
• Spinal Cord Injury under C5-C6 spinal level with American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) classification.
• Patients with shoulder pain and at least one active trigger point in infraspinatus muscle.

Exclusion criteria

• Be apprehensive to the needles (belonephobia).
• Immunosuppression.
• Drug instability.
• Other medical causes that, under medical prescription, dry needling in the shoulder are discouraged.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental group will receive dry needling treatment.

Treatment:

Procedure: Dry needling in infraspinatus muscle

Control group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Control group will receive sham dry needling treatment.

Treatment:

Procedure: Dry needling in infraspinatus muscle