NCT05744778

The Effect of Dry Needling Treatment Combined With Physical Therapy in Patients With Cervical Spondylosis

The Effect of Dry Needling Treatment Combined With Physical Therapy in Patients With Cervical Spondylosis: A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In this study, it was aimed to determine whether dry needling treatment applied to the trigger points in the trapezius muscle in patients with chronic neck pain due to cervical spondylosis makes an additional contribution to the treatment results of the physical therapy and rehabilitation program.

Detailed description

Among the evaluated patients, the patients meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be randomized into 2 groups using the random numbers table. While physical therapy and rehabilitation program will be applied to one group, dry needling treatment will be applied to the trigger points in the upper trapezius region with the same program to the other group. Patients will be evaluated before treatment (day 0) and at the end of treatment (day 21). The randomization and evaluation of the patients will be done by Gül Tuğba Bulut, while the injection of the patients will be done by Alper Mengi. Gender, age, education level, occupation, neck pain duration, body mass index of the patients included in the study will be recorded. The patients will be evaluated in terms of pain intensity, number of active trigger points in the upper trapezius muscle, functional status, quality of life, anxiety and depression at before (day 0) and after treatment (day 21).

Conditions

• Dry Needling
• Cervical Spondylosis
• Physical Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dry needling	In addition to the physical therapy and exercise program, the dry needling group will consist of patients who have had 3 sessions of dry needling applied to the trigger points in the trapezius muscle, 5 days apart.
OTHER	Physical therapy and rehabilitation	The physical therapy and rehabilitation group will consist of patients who will be applied the same exercise program together with the same physical therapy applications (superficial heat (infrared lamp), transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and therapeutic ultrasound (TUS)) 5 sessions per week for 3 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-06-01
• Completion: 2023-06-01
• First posted: 2023-02-27
• Last updated: 2023-09-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)