Effectiveness of Dry Needling of Active Trigger Points in Neck Muscles in Patients With Chronic Cervical Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT06257992
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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)
Randomized Single-Blind Clinical Trial in which the treatment will be administered through 3 sessions of dry needling in the cervical muscles's active trigger points in patients with chronic cervical pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of Dry Needling of Active Trigger Points in Neck Muscles in Patients With Chronic Cervical Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Dry Needling
- Other: Stretch
- Sponsor
- Universidad de Zaragoza
- Start date
- 2024-02
- Primary completion
- 2024-07
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 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: * Be older than 18 years old * Sign informed consent form prior to participating in this study * Have chronic cervical pain diagnosis of their primary care doctor. * Have one or more active myofascial trigger point in the cervical muscles according to the criteria established by Simons et al. Exclusion Criteria: * Major trauma on cervical spine stated from the medical history * Inflammatory, hormonal or neurological disorders * Have contraindication to conservative or invasive physiotherapy (infection, fever, hypothyroidism, wound in the puncture area, metal allergies, cancer or systemic diseases, or belonephobia) * Having received physiotherapy treatment for the condition in the past month
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06257992