NCT02373631

Dry Needling Versus Conventional Physical Therapy in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis

Dry Needling Versus Conventional Physical Therapy in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: a Multi-center Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Alabama Physical Therapy & Acupuncture · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to compare the effectiveness of conventional physical therapy (manual physical therapy, exercise, range of motion, and stretching) versus conventional physical therapy combined with dry needling in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Physical therapists commonly use conventional physical therapy techniques and dry needling to treat knee OA, and this study is attempting to find out if the addition of dry needling to conventional physical therapy has an equal, greater, or lesser effect than conventional physical therapy alone.

Detailed description

Patients with knee OA will be randomized to receive 1-2 treatments per week for 6 weeks (up to 10 sessions total) of either: (1) Dry Needling and conventional physical therapy or the (2) Conventional physical therapy (manual physical therapy, exercise, range of motion and stretching)

Conditions

• Knee Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dry Needling, Conventional PT	Dry needling to the knee and conventional physical therapy (stretching, ROM, strengthening), 1-2 treatments per week X6 weeks (up to 10 sessions total)
OTHER	Conventional PT	Conventional physical therapy to include knee stretching, range of motion, and strengthening exercises,1-2 treatments per week X6 weeks (up to 10 sessions total)

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-02-01
• Primary completion: 2017-05-19
• Completion: 2017-05-19
• First posted: 2015-02-27
• Last updated: 2017-05-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States