Treatment of Hamstring Muscle in Patients With Low-back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04090502
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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)
This study evaluates the treatment of hamstrings in the management of patients with mechanical low back pain of non-specific origin. Half of the participants will received the application of a dry needle technique in the most hyperalgesic areas of the muscle, while the other half will received the same technique in areas not hyperalgesic.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of Hamstring Muscle Dry Needling in Patients With Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain of Non-specific Origin
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Dry needling in hamstring muscle trigger points
- Other: Dry needling in hamstring muscle not trigger points
- Sponsor
- University of Alcala
- Start date
- 2019-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2023-10-24
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Nonspecific chronic low back pain lasting ≥ 3 months. * Age between 18 and 65 years. * History of non-specific lumbar pain not irradiated to lower extremities of at least 1 year of evolution. * Those subjects who have not received a physiotherapy session in the last 6 months. Exclusion Criteria: * Specific low back pain (infection, tumor, inflammation, canal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, hernia or disc prolapse, structural deformity, rheumatic disease, radicular pain, cauda equina, previous history of spinal surgery). * Fibromyalgia. * Treatment with corticosteroids or oral medications in the last 6 months. * History of spinal surgery. * Contraindications typical of deep dry puncture (needle phobia, coagulation or psychological disorders, varicose regions, cysts, wounds, metal or latex allergy, lymphedema, hypothyroidism, diabetes). * Those subjects with a value of 0º in the Active Knee Extension (EAR) test. * Pregnancy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04090502