Status:
COMPLETED
Comparison of Dry Needling and Sustained Pressure in Para-spinal Muscles Trigger Points
Lead Sponsor:
Riphah International University
Conditions:
Low Back Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
20-50 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This study will compare the effect of dry needling and sustained pressure in the lumbar Paraspinal trigger points in terms of pain threshold and muscle length. There will be two groups ; experimental...
Detailed Description
The study is Randomized Control Trail , which is being conducted in Pakistan Railway hospital and Riphah international hospital (march 2019-june 2019) . Sample size of 50 individual was calculated usi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age between 20-50.
- Patient of acute, sub acute, chronic Low back pain (LBP), Mechanical Low back pain (MLBP) and radiculopathies up to one year.
- Patients having active (spontaneously painful) or latent (requiring palpation to reproduce the characteristic pain) MTrPs.
Exclusion
- Patients that were using any medication to reduce the pain and/or have any effect in the skeletal muscle including analgesics, anticoagulants and muscular relaxants.
- Taking other treatment in the same period of the research.
- Pregnant female.
- Patients with Chronic Disease (kidney disease, Diabetic, and osteoporosis) and spinal diseases (herniated disc, spondylolisthesis) will be excluded.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 30 2019
Estimated Enrollment :
50 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04043741
Start Date
March 1 2019
End Date
June 30 2019
Last Update
August 2 2019
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Riphah International University
Islamabad, Pakistan, 44000