NCT04684784

Effect of Dry Needling on Surface Electromyographic Activity in Latent Trigger Points

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Castilla-La Mancha · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of Dry Needling (DN) on electromyographic activity in different situations at the latent trigger point (LTrP) point of the upper trapezius. Randomized controlled trial, in parallel with the crossover control design. Two groups with LTrP in the upper trapezius, and the DN group or the Sham-Dn group will be randomly selected.

Conditions

• Trigger Point Pain, Myofascial

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Intervention-Dry Needling	Deep Dry Needling into the site of the latent TriggerPoint 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

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-04
• Primary completion: 2021-02-04
• Completion: 2021-02-18
• First posted: 2020-12-28
• Last updated: 2021-02-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain