How to Reduce Dry Needling Pain in Treatment of Trigger Points of Muscle Triceps Sural in Ankle Post Fracture Patients

Becerra, Pablo

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Rehabilitation; Trigger Point Pain, Myofascial; Pain Measurement; Ankle Fractures; Needles; Physical Therapy Modalities

Treatments: Other: Treadmill exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05193695

Becerra

Details and patient eligibility

About

Ankle fractures are one of the main causes of hospitalization due to injuries in Chile, which also have a discharge and partial load time of approximately 12 weeks in the recovery process. This generates disuse and atrophy of the posterior musculature of the leg called the triceps sural, which makes it difficult to restart and perform the gait. We conducted this research because practically all patients with this type of diagnosis have trigger points in these muscles, and dry needling technique is one of the best for its treatment, but has the disadvantage that it produces post dry needling pain of 48 hours and there is not enough information, or consensus on which method is better to reduce post dry needling pain. This study aims to prove wich technique is most useful in reducing pain post dry needling for the treatment of trigger points in the triceps sural muscle in ankle post fracture patients.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages between 18 and 60 years of age.
• Man or woman.
• At least one trigger point, active or latent, in the triceps sural muscle of the fractured ankle.
• Perform full load without using technical aids.

Exclusion criteria

• Use of analgesics.
• Insurmountable fear of needles.
• Immune disease.
• Clotting disorders.
• Sensory disorders.
• Psychiatric / psychological illness.
• Cancer.
• Rheumatic diseases.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients remained in the supine position for 20 minutes lying on a stretcher after dry needling.

Treadmill

Experimental group

Description:

The patients walked on a treadmill for 20 minutes after dry needling, with an inclination of 5 degrees and at a speed at which the perceived exertion was 5 according to the Borg CR10 scale (Chen et al., 2002).

Treatment:

Other: Treadmill exercise