NCT05680493

Comparison of Dry Needling and Manual Pressure Release for Managing Low Back Pain

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Foundation University Islamabad · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will compare the effect of dry needling and manual pressure in patients having low back pain in terms of pain and disability. There will be two groups ; experimental and control. Half of study group will receive dry needling session along with hot pack. Half of study group will receive manual pressure technique along with hot pack.

Detailed description

The study is Randomized Control Trail , which is being conducted in fauji foundation hospital and Foundation University College Of Rehabilitation (oct 2022-feb 2023) . Sample size of 50 individual was calculated using epitool with 95% confidence interval (CI), and power 80%. sample will be collected through pilot study . both groups will recieve conventional physiotherapy protocol (hot pack) Assessment will be done on baseline, and 4th week .

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Manual pressure release	lengthens the muscle up to the increasing resistance, then gradually applies gentle pressure on MTrp until fingers feels a definite increase in tissue resistance (first barrier). Pressure would maintain until clinician sense relief of tension
PROCEDURE	Dry needling	A filiform needle is inserted at 45 degree in to trigger point and then twirl the needle up and down to release trigger point
PROCEDURE	Heat therapy	Hydro collator pack will be placed on affected area for relaxation and pain relief for 15 min

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-01-01
• Completion: 2023-02-01
• First posted: 2023-01-11
• Last updated: 2023-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan