NCT02579291

Dry Needling in Patients Who Had Experience Stroke

Changes in Spasticity, Motor Function and Stabilometry After Dry Needling of the Tibialis Posterior Muscle in Post-stroke Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Individuals who had experience a stroke usually suffer from spasticity at medium and long-terms. The presence of spasticity in the lower extremity implies several impairments for standing and walking inducing high disability. A recent study has proposed the use of dry needling for improving spasticity in the lower extremity. No study has investigated the effects of deep dry needling inserted into spastic musculature in stabilometry and moto function in patients who had experience a stroke. A randomized controlled trial investigating the effects of the inclusion of deep dry needling into a Bobath interventional program on spasticity, motor function and balance (stabilometry) in individuals who had experience a stroke

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dry needling	Once the most painful spot is located within a palpable spastic taut band, the overlying skin is cleaned with alcohol. The needle will be inserted, penetrating the skin about 15-20mm, until the first local twitch response is obtained. Once the first local twitch response is obtained, the needle will be moved up and down (4 to 5 mm. vertical motions with no rotation) in the muscle at approximately 1Hz for 25-30 seconds.
OTHER	Bobath	Patients will receive different neuromodulatory interventions based on the Bobath concept with the aim to decrease spasticity on the lower extremity

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-01
• Completion: 2016-05-01
• First posted: 2015-10-19
• Last updated: 2016-05-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain