NCT02393352

Benefits of Dry Needling in Trigger Points on Autonomic Nervous System and Corporal Composition in Patients With Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Benefits of Dry Needling in Trigger Points on Autonomic Nervous System, Photoelectric Plethysmography, Body Composition in Patients With Fibromyalgia Syndrome.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Almeria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the benefits of dry needling in trigger points on autonomic nervous system, photoelectric plethysmography, body composition in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.

Detailed description

Dru needling can be developed on active trigger points. Myofascial trigger points can be active or latent. An active myofascial trigger point pain causes giving a specific pathological picture. We will conduct a location of myofascial trigger points following the illustrations location myofascial trigger points that indicate Travell and Simons both left-sided and right.

Conditions

• Fibromyalgia
• Trigger Points

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dry Needling Therapy	The dry needling therapy will be applied on active trigger points in occipital muscle, splenius capitis, sternocleidomastoid muscle, scalene muscles, trapezius, supraspinatus, infraspinatus muscle, latissimus dorsi, iliocostalis muscle, multifidus muscles, and quadratus lumbourm muscles.
OTHER	Electrical Stimulation Therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-11-01
• Completion: 2017-02-01
• First posted: 2015-03-19
• Last updated: 2017-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain