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Dry Needling Effectiveness of Patients on Break Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

Spain40 participantsStarted 2016-02

Plain-language summary

We will conduct a randomized clinical trial observing forty patients divided into two groups: one group composed of twenty individuals undergoing surgery for ruptured ACL, which perform dry needling of myofascial trigger (PGM) point of the vastus muscle and then perform techniques proprioception (group a); and twenty patients not be treated with dry needling after ACL surgery, using only proprioceptive exercises to the joint (group B).

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 55 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * over eighteen and anatomically mature surgically break LCA and valued above using MRI and functional tests to confirm the rupture of the ligament. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who did not reach 18 years of age and those over 55, * postoperative complications * cause myofascial or neuropathic pain in the lower limb, as lumba-sacral radiculopathy, neuropraxia, neurotmesis, axonotmesis or meralgia paresthetica; * fibromyalgia. * hypothyroidism * iron deficiencies and patients who had a fear of needles (fear of needles). * Lower limb differences.

What they're measuring

Degree range of motion (ROM)

Timeframe: 24 hours

Scores ofThe Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC)

Timeframe: 24 hours

Pain scores visual analog scale (EVA)

Timeframe: 24 hours

Scores of STAR BALANCE TEST

Timeframe: 24

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02699411

SponsorEuropean University Spain

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2016-06

Contact for this trial

Jorge Velázquez, sr

+34655909940 jorgevelasa@yahoo.es

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