NCT04726683

Dry Needling vs Injection in Patients With Temporomandibular Disorders

Trigger Point Dry Needling vs Injection in Patients With Temporomandibular Disorders: a Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Josue Fernandez Carnero · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main objective is to compare the effectiveness of dry needling in improving pain and disability versus placebo, and versus infiltration, in patients with myofascial temporomandibular dysfunction in the short, medium and long term.

Conditions

• Temporomandibular Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Dry needling and placebo injection	Dry Needling is applied with a filiform needle to penetrate the skin and stimulate the underlying myofascial trigger point of the masseter muscle. Dry needling is combined with placebo injection, in which the tip of a beveled needle is cut and the process of injection is simulated without penetrating the skin.
PROCEDURE	Injection and placebo dry needling	Lidocaine injection applied in the myofascial trigger point of the masseter muscle. Lidocaine injection is combined with placebo dry needling, in which the tip of a filiform needle is cut and the dry needling technique simulated without penetrating the skin
PROCEDURE	Dry needling and injection	Dry Needling is applied with a filiform needle to penetrate the skin and stimulate the underlying myofascial trigger point of the masseter muscle. Dry needling is combined with lidocaine injection applied in the myofascial trigger point of the masseter muscle.
PROCEDURE	Placebo dry needling and placebo injection	Placebo dry needling, in which the tip of a filiform needle is cut and the dry needling technique simulated without penetrating the skin. Placebo dry needling is combined with placebo injection, in which the tip of a beveled needle is cut and the process of injection is simulated without penetrating the skin

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-23
• Primary completion: 2023-12-15
• Completion: 2024-12-15
• First posted: 2021-01-27
• Last updated: 2023-11-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain