Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04400825
Dry Needling Versus Stretching for Muscle Extensibility
Comparing Dry Needling and Stretching for the Management of Muscle Extensibility in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 38 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Universidad de Zaragoza · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 50 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent chronic disease in the world. Currently several authors have shown the presence of active myofascial trigger points (MTrP) in the muscles surrounding the hip joint that reproduce the symptoms of the patients with hip OA. Despite of the beneficial effects that have shown may conservative non-pharmacological treatments, there is a lack of studies evaluating the effects of the conservative treatments on muscle extensibility. According to the new paradigm about the presence of MTrPs, the investigators decided to conduct a randomized clinical trial to compare the effects of DN intervention and stretching protocol on muscle extensibility in patients with hip OA.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Dry needling | Dry needling of the active MTrPs following the technique described by Hong et al (1994,1995) |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2020-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2020-07-19
- Completion
- 2020-07-19
- First posted
- 2020-05-26
- Last updated
- 2020-11-03
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Spain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04400825. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.