Electrical Dry Needling and Therapeutic Exercise Versus Therapeutic Exercise in Patients With Nonspecific Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT06522893
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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 effectiveness of electrical dry needling combined with therapeutic exercise versus therapeutic exercise alone in patients with nonspecific chronic mechanical neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Comparison of Electrical Dry Needling and Therapeutic Exercise Versus Therapeutic Exercise in Patients With Nonspecific Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Electrical Dry Needling and Therapeutic exercise
- Other: Therapeutic exercise
- Sponsor
- Universidad de Almeria
- Start date
- 2025-11-15
- Primary completion
- 2026-01-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 30 Years to 68 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: * Male and female patients aged between 30 and 65 years with chronic cervical pain lasting 3 months or more and not receiving any other type of physiotherapy treatment. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with sensory and/or coagulation disorders, history of spine surgery, cardiac complications, severe concurrent central or peripheral nervous system disease, epilepsy, needle phobia, disc pathology, or serious pathologies that may be the primary cause of chronic cervical pain (e.g., tumors, Arnold Chiari disease, vertigo syndrome, etc.) will be excluded, as they are contraindicated for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06522893