Effectiveness of Dry Needling Adding to Physical Therapy in Patients With Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02927977
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this randomized clinical trial is to verify the effectiveness of the addition of the dry needling in individuals with non-specific neck pain who receive a multimodal physical therapy rehabilitation program.
Study details
- Official title
- Dry-needling Added to Physical Therapy for Treating Patients With Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre
- Start date
- 2016-12
- Primary completion
- 2017-05
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * able to speaking and reading in Portuguese, severity of the symptoms at least 3 points on 0-10 numeric pain rating and at least 14% disability on Neck Disability Index. Exclusion Criteria: * history of whiplash associated injuries, fibromyalgia, cervical spine symptoms of radiculopathy or myelopathy, use of anticoagulant medication, pregnancy, history of spinal surgeries and "red flags" (spinal fracture, inflammatory diseases, tumor, fracture, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis).
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02927977