Dry Needling and Pain Education in the Treatment of Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03095365
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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)
to compare the effects on pain, disability and psychological factors of the combination of MTrP dry needling and pain neuroscience education to MTrPs dry needing alone and control electrotherapy usual care in patients with chronic neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Dry Needling and Pain Neuroscience Education in Chronic Pain Patients
- Conditions
- Pain, Neck
- Sponsor
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Start date
- 2017-03-14
- Primary completion
- 2017-09-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Mechanical neck pain for at least 12 weeks * 10% or higher on the Neck Disability Index questionnaire * 20mm or higher on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of neck pain * Presence of at least one active myofascial trigger point Exclusion Criteria: * Neck pain associated with whiplash injuries * Medical red flag history (i.e., tumour, fracture, metabolic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis) * Neck pain with cervical radiculopathy * Neck pain associated with externalized cervical disc herniation * Fibromyalgia syndrome * Previous neck surgery * Neck pain accompanied by vertigo caused by vertebrobasilar insufficiency or accompanied by non-cervicogenic headaches
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03095365