NCT03167710

Dry Needling, Manipulation and Stretching vs. Manual Therapy, Exercise and Ultrasound for Lateral Epicondylalgia

Electric Dry Needling, Thrust Manipulation and Stretching Versus Impairment-based Manual Therapy, Exercise and Ultrasound for Patients With Lateral Epicondylalgia: A Multi-center Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 143 (actual)
• Sponsor: Alabama Physical Therapy & Acupuncture · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to compare two different approaches for treating patients with lateral epicondylalgia: electric dry needling, thrust manipulation and stretching versus impairment-based manual therapy, exercise and ultrasound. Physical therapists commonly use all of these techniques to treat lateral epicondyalgia. This study is attempting to find out if one treatment strategy is more effective than the other.

Detailed description

Patients with epicondyalgia will be randomized to receive 2 treatment sessions per week for 4 weeks (up to 8 sessions total) of either: (1) electric dry needling, thrust manipulation and stretching or (2) impairment-based manual therapy, exercise and ultrasound

Conditions

• Lateral Epicondylitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dry Needling, manipulation, stretching	HVLA thrust manipulation to elbow, wrist and spine (C5-C6). Dry needling to wrist extensor muscles on the dorsal forearm, proximal and distal of the lateral epicondyle. Up to 8 treatment sessions over 4 weeks.
OTHER	manual therapy, exercise, ultrasound	Impairment-based manual therapy, exercise and ultrasound targeting the wrist extensors on the dorsal forearm, proximal and distal of the lateral epicondyle. Up to 8 treatment sessions over 4 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-06-15
• Primary completion: 2021-03-15
• Completion: 2021-03-15
• First posted: 2017-05-30
• Last updated: 2023-09-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States