Exercise and Post-dry Needling Soreness

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Status

Completed

Conditions

Shoulder Pain

Treatments

Other: Placebo

Other: Eccentric Exercise

Other: Detuned Ultrasound

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02558686

URJC 2015-12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Application of trigger point dry needling can induce post-dry needling soreness. This is not a negative experience, but sometimes some patients want to reduce it as much as possible. Manual therapies and exercise strategies targeting to decrease post-dry needling soreness need to be investigated.

Enrollment

90 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Unilateral non-traumatic shoulder pain
Shoulder pain from at least 6 months
Shoulder pain of more than 3 points on a NPRS
Presence of active trigger point in the infraspinatus muscle

Exclusion criteria

bilateral shoulder pain
younger than 18 or older than 65 years
shoulder injury
upper extremity surgery
fibromyalgia syndrome
neck or shoulder surgery
cervical radiculopathy
whiplash
any type of intervention for the neck-shoulder the previous year

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Triple Blind

90 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Eccentric Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Individuals will perform 3 sets of 10 repetitions of eccentric exercise of the infraspinatus muscle after the application of trigger point dry needling

Treatment:

Other: Eccentric Exercise

Detuned Ultrasound

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Individuals will received 10 minutes of detuned ultrasound on the infraspinatus muscle after the application of trigger point dry needling

Treatment:

Other: Detuned Ultrasound

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Individuals will not perform any action after the application of trigger point dry needling