Dry Needling Versus Stretching for Muscle Extensibility

Osteoarthritis, Hip Clinical Trial

Official title:

Comparing Dry Needling and Stretching for the Management of Muscle Extensibility in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04400825
• Other study ID #: CEIm1955
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: July 19, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: November 2020
• Source: Universidad de Zaragoza
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent chronic disease in the world. Currently several authors have shown the presence of active myofascial trigger points (MTrP) in the muscles surrounding the hip joint that reproduce the symptoms of the patients with hip OA.

Despite of the beneficial effects that have shown may conservative non-pharmacological treatments, there is a lack of studies evaluating the effects of the conservative treatments on muscle extensibility.

According to the new paradigm about the presence of MTrPs, the investigators decided to conduct a randomized clinical trial to compare the effects of DN intervention and stretching protocol on muscle extensibility in patients with hip OA.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 38
• Est. completion date: July 19, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: July 19, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 50 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• unilateral hip OA diagnosed medically with a X-Ray tess and following the American College of Rheumatology Criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

• Secondary osteoarthritis by a traumatism, Paget disease, inflammatory or metabolic disease, congenital diseases etc.

• Vascular or neurological disease.

• Musculoskeletal pathologies in lumbar spine, pelvis or lower limbs

• DN contraindications or fear of needles

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Osteoarthritis
• Osteoarthritis, Hip

Intervention

Other:
• Dry needling
Dry needling of the active MTrPs following the technique described by Hong et al (1994,1995)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Luis Ceballos Laita	Soria

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad de Zaragoza

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	muscle extensibility	the examiners assess the muscle extensibility using an inclinomenter	Baseline
Primary	muscle extensibility	the examiners assess the muscle extensibility using an inclinomenter	up to 3 weeks
Secondary	Stiffness	the examiners assess the stiffness using the WOMAC stiffness subscale	Baseline
Secondary	Stiffness	the examiners assess the stiffness using the WOMAC stiffness subscale	up to 3 weeks