The Effect of Dry Needling Compared to Lumbar Spine Mobilization in Patients With Chronic Non Specific Low Back Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT05214456
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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)
Low back pain is a major public health challenge worldwide. The aim of this study will be to compare the effect of dry needling with mobilization on pain, functional disability, quadratus lumborum and lumbar multifidus function, lumbar range of motion and pain pressure threshold using a randomized controlled trial design. pain and functional disability are primary outcomes and quadratus lumborum and lumbar multifidus function, lumbar range of motion and pain pressure threshold are considered as secondary outcomes. Patients will be randomly divided into two groups: The experimental group (dry needling, sham mobilization and routine physiotherapy) and the control group (mobilization, sham dry needling and routine physiotherapy).
Study details
- Official title
- To Compare the Effect of Dry Needling Versus Lumbar Spine Mobilization on Symptoms in Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Dry needling
- Other: Mobilization
- Sponsor
- Iran University of Medical Sciences
- Start date
- 2022-10-20
- Primary completion
- 2023-09-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 45 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Iran
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Participants aged between 18 to 45 years. * Moderate pain intensity (between 30 to 60) based on Numerical Pain Rating Scale (0 means no pain and 100 is the most imaginable pain). * Participants with trigger points in the quadratus lumborum and lumbar multifidus muscles. * The Participant's symptoms are provoked with passive accessory intervertebral movements on at least one level of the lumbar spine vertebrae. * Patients are able to read and write Persian. Exclusion Criteria: * Complications that affect the treatment process such as systemic diseases, neurological disorders, inflammatory conditions, infectious conditions, structural and degenerative changes, metabolic bone diseases and bleeding disorders. * History of lumbar surgery. * Specific low back pain (Neurogenic low back pain, spinal stenosis, cauda equina syndrome, spondylolisthesis, and Presence of any signs or symptoms of non- musculoskeletal pathology e.g. cancer, infection and fracture based on paraclinical findings) * Inability to obtain prone lying. * Pregnancy. * Needle phobia. * Long history of steroid use
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05214456