Dry Needling Effectiveness and Post-punction Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04148469
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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 estudy was to dertermine if the application of Transcutaneous Nerve Stimiulation (TENS) current have an hypoalgesic effect on pattientes suffering from miofascial neck pain, compared with a only dry needling treatment. Psicological varaibles were also mesured in order to determine how they change after each treatment.
Study details
- Official title
- Benefits and Harms of Dry Needling vs Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation and Dry Needling in Patients With Chronic Myofascial Neck Pain and Relationship With Psychological Influences
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Dry needling
- Procedure: Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation.
- Procedure: Placebo needling
- Sponsor
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Start date
- 2012-11
- Primary completion
- 2013-06-12
- 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 of at least 6 months. * VAS 2 or greather. * Existance of miofascial trigger point in trapezius muscle assesed by an expert PT. Exclusion Criteria: * Neck pain due secondary to ostheoporosis, metastasis, neoplasias, fractures, infections, cervical stenosis or infexious procces. * Headache secondary to medular compression presenting one o the following signs: abnormal sensitivity, hiperreflexia, clonus, spread weakness, cervical hernia. * Neck pain with radiculopathy. * Whiplash. * Vertebrobasilar syndrome. * Dizzyness. * Pregnancy. * Having received dry needling treatment before.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04148469