NCT03095365

Dry Needling and Pain Education in the Treatment of Chronic Neck Pain

Dry Needling and Pain Neuroscience Education in Chronic Pain Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

to compare the effects on pain, disability and psychological factors of the combination of MTrP dry needling and pain neuroscience education to MTrPs dry needing alone and control electrotherapy usual care in patients with chronic neck pain.

Conditions

• Pain, Neck

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dry needling	Insertion of solid filament needles in the muscle
OTHER	Pain neuroscience education	Explanation of the functioning of the central nervous system, the differences between acute pain and chronic pain and the importance of thoughts and beliefs in the processing and chronification of pain
OTHER	Conventional treatment	Electrotherapy: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and microwaves

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-14
• Primary completion: 2017-09-01
• Completion: 2017-09-05
• First posted: 2017-03-29
• Last updated: 2017-09-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain