CompletedNot Applicable

Comparison of Dry Needling and Sustained Pressure in Para-spinal Muscles Trigger Points

Pakistan50 participantsStarted 2019-03-01

Plain-language 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 and control. Half of study group will receive dry needling session along with stretching and strengthening exercises and half of study group will receive sustained pressure technique along with stretching and strengthening exercises .

Who can participate

Age range20 Years – 50 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion criteria

✓. 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 criteria

✕. 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.

What they're measuring

The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI)

Timeframe: up to 2 weeks

Para-spinal muscle length

Timeframe: up to 2 weeks

Visual analog scale

Timeframe: up to 2 weeks

Pain Pressure Threshold (PPT).

Timeframe: up to 2 weeks

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04043741

SponsorRiphah International University

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2019-05-30

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