Muscle Activity and Kinematic Changes With Dry Needling

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Dry needling with electrical stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04295200

IRB00001301

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study assesses the effects of dry needling with electrical stimulation to the low back on muscle activity and changes in movement. The investigators hypothesize that dry needling and electrical stimulation will elicit changes in muscle activity as well as changes in movement.

Full description

This study will utilize a Vicon motion capture system in conjunction with a Noraxon wireless surface electromyography system to analyze movements and muscle activity of each participant pre and post needling.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English speaking individuals between the ages of 18 and 60 years old
• without current complaint of low back pain
• no history of low back or lower extremity surgery

Exclusion criteria

• individuals with current complaint of low back pain,
• lumbar radicular symptoms
• history of low back surgery or lower extremity surgery
• pregnancy or planning to become pregnant,
• currently taking immunosuppressant or anticoagulation use with INR not within therapeutic range
• needle phobia
• osteoporosis will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Dry needling with electrical stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

Use of dry needles (this is the generic name for sterile, solid filament needles) are inserted into the lumbar multifidi. Intramuscular electrical stimulation will then be applied by attaching a six-lead electrical stimulation unit to the needles. Electrical stimulation will be applied through the needles at the participant's desired frequency (between 4-6 Hz) and for up to 10 minutes total.

Treatment:

Other: Dry needling with electrical stimulation