Dry Needling Effectiveness of Patients on Break Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Clinical Trial

— ACL  

Official title:

Dry Needling Effectiveness of Patients on Break Anterior Cruciate Ligament. Single-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02699411
• Other study ID #: European University
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 26, 2016
• Last updated: March 1, 2016
• Start date: February 2016
• Est. completion date: September 2016

Study information

• Verified date: March 2016
• Source: European University Spain
• Contact: Jorge Velázquez, sr
• Phone: +34655909940
• Email: jorgevelasa[@]yahoo.es
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

We will conduct a randomized clinical trial observing forty patients divided into two groups: one group composed of twenty individuals undergoing surgery for ruptured ACL, which perform dry needling of myofascial trigger (PGM) point of the vastus muscle and then perform techniques proprioception (group a); and twenty patients not be treated with dry needling after ACL surgery, using only proprioceptive exercises to the joint (group B).

Description:

It carries out a last fifteen days ECA surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament. Twenty individuals in a group to be subjected to a technique of physiotherapy, dry needling were included. (Group A). Another group of twenty patients treated with conservative treatment performed a stability exercises and proprioception (Group B). Forty-six patients will be examined s. None had been previously operated by joint instability and all subjects were previously subjected to a diagnostic study by nuclear magnetic resonance before surgery and the diagnosis was confirmed by additional diagnostic testing. All patients will be evaluated by a physical therapist and Myofascial Trigger Point (PGM) of the vastus muscle will be evaluated.

patients using the following variables are evaluated:

• Pain: Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was used.

• Stiffness and physical function using the WOMAC scale (The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index.).

• Range of motion of the knee joint: Scale ROM.

• Muscular strength, balance and propiocepción: Star Excursion by Balance Scale Test.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: September 2016
• Est. primary completion date: June 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 55 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• over eighteen and anatomically mature surgically break LCA and valued above using MRI and functional tests to confirm the rupture of the ligament.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who did not reach 18 years of age and those over 55,

• postoperative complications

• cause myofascial or neuropathic pain in the lower limb, as lumba-sacral radiculopathy, neuropraxia, neurotmesis, axonotmesis or meralgia paresthetica;

• fibromyalgia.

• hypothyroidism

• iron deficiencies and patients who had a fear of needles (fear of needles).

• Lower limb differences.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Intervention

Device:
• Dry needling
dry needling Travell and Simons

Other:
• Stability and propioception
Start excursion balance test, WOMAC; ROM, EVA.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Jorge Velázquez Saornil	Madrid

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
European University Spain

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Degree range of motion (ROM)		24 hours
Primary	Scores ofThe Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC)		24 hours
Primary	Pain scores visual analog scale (EVA)		24 hours
Primary	Scores of STAR BALANCE TEST		24
Secondary	Degree range of motion (ROM)		1 week
Secondary	Degree range of motion (ROM)		5 weeks
Secondary	Scores ofThe Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC)		1 week
Secondary	Scores ofThe Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC)		5 weeks
Secondary	Pain scores visual analog scale (EVA)		1 week
Secondary	Pain scores visual analog scale (EVA)		5 weeks
Secondary	Scores STAR BALANCE TEST		1week
Secondary	Scores STAR BALANCE TEST		5 weeks