NCT04285216

Effects of Dry Needling and Strain Counter Strain Technique in Myofascial Trigger Points of Upper Trapezius

Combined Effects of Dry Needling and Strain Counter Strain Technique in Myofascial Trigger Points of Upper Trapezius

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine the effects of Dry Needling and Strain Counter Strain Technique in Myofascial Trigger Points of Upper Trapezius

Detailed description

It is Randomized Controlled trail will be conduct in Mayo Hospital Lahore and Alnoor Hospital Awan town Lahore. Non probability consecutive sampling technique will be used to collect the data. Each group contain the 14 patients, Patient will be divided into two groups. Group A will be experimental group treated by Dry needling and strain counter strain with baseline treatment and Group B will be control group treated by Strain counter strain with baseline treatment(Hot pack 10 mints,stretching,Neck isometrics). Neck Disability index (NDI) ,visual analogue scale(VAS) and goniometer will be used as data collecting tools.

Conditions

• Trigger Point Pain, Myofascial

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dry Needling	Hot pack 10 mints,stretching,Neck isometrics, dry needling(DN) and Strain counterstrain(SCS)
OTHER	Strain counter strain	Hot pack 10 mints, stretchings,Neck isometrics, Strain counterstrain(SCS)

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-15
• Primary completion: 2020-06-20
• Completion: 2020-08-28
• First posted: 2020-02-26
• Last updated: 2020-09-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan