NCT04394741

Effects of Dry Needling on Stiffness in Latent Trigger Points

Effects of Dry Needling on Stiffness in Latent Myofascial Trigger Points: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 51 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Castilla-La Mancha · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether application of Dry Needling (DN) is effective for reduced on Stiffness in Latent trigger point (LTrP) of upper trapezius. The secondary purposes are to determine the correlation on two elastography for stiffness measure (Shear-wave elastography and Strain elastography). Randomized controlled trial, in parallel with cross-control design. Two groups with LTrP in upper trapezius, and will be randomly selected to DN group or Sham-Dn group.

Conditions

• Trigger Points

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Intervention-Dry Needling	Deep Dry Needling into the site of the latent Trigger Point of the upper trapezius muscle. 1 session in upper trapezius muscle moving the needle up and down ten times.
DEVICE	Control-Dry Needling	Sham Dry Needling into the site of the latent Trigger Point of the upper trapezius muscle with non-penetrating needles 1 session in upper trapezius muscle moving the needle up and down ten times.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-01
• Primary completion: 2020-07-31
• Completion: 2020-08-31
• First posted: 2020-05-19
• Last updated: 2020-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain