NCT02380807

Effects of Dry Needling on Spinal Mobility and Trigger Points in Patients With Fibromyalgia Syndrome.

Effects of Dry Needling on Posture, Spinal Mobility and Trigger Points on Spinal Muscles in Patients With Fibromyalgia Syndrome.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Almeria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effect of Dry Needling on Spinal Mobility and Trigger Points in Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome.

Detailed description

Dry Needling is a skilled intervention that uses a thin filiform needle to penetrate the skin and stimulate underlying myofascial trigger points, muscular, and connective tissues for the management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and movement impairments. Dry needling (DN) is a technique used to treat dysfunctions in skeletal muscle, fascia, and connective tissue, and, diminish persistent peripheral nociceptive input, and reduce or restore impairments of body structure and function leading to improved activity and participation.

Conditions

• Fibromyalgia
• Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Dry Needling	Dry needling is the use of either solid filiform needles or hollow-core hypodermic needles for therapy of muscle pain, sometimes also known as intramuscular stimulation (IMS). Although dry needling originally utilized only hypodermic needles due to the concern that solid filiform needles had neither the strength or tactile feedback that hypodermic needles provided and that the solid filiform needle could be deflected by "dense contraction knots".
OTHER	Cross Tape Therapy	The tape consists of cross bands or strips mesh cross, nonelastic and without any medication, forming a grid-shaped patch. The cross tape will be applied on trigger points.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-07-01
• First posted: 2015-03-05
• Last updated: 2016-01-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain