Foot Plantar Pressure Changes After Plantar Dry Needling

Mayuben Private Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Foot Diseases; Myofascial Pain Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Static footprint

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04628312

2706201911419 C

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this clinical trial is to check the effects of dry needling in the Flexor digitorum Brevis.

Twenty healthy subjects wil be recruited for a quasi-experimental study. Participants will be from 18 to 40 years old, not obese. Participants will be measured before and after bilateral dry neddling in Flexor digitorum Brevis. The investigators will measure static footprint variables. The footprint variables will be divided in bilateral rear foot, bilateral midfoot, bilateral fore foot.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Flat foot grade II or II with
• Must have latent trigger point in Flexor Brevis Digitorum muscles

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 1 patient group

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

Experimental group

Description:

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

Treatment:

Other: Static footprint