Recruiting

Dry-Needling Techniques

Sponsor:

Texas Woman's University

Code:

NCT03970486

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Dry needling

Study Details

Brief summary:

Although dry-needling with or without manipulation has shown to be a useful technique to reduce pain in patients with low back pain (LBP), it is unclear which of these two dry-needling techniques would have a greater effect on the lumboscaral multifidus (LM) muscle activation, which is essential in LBP rehabilitation. Therefore, the purposes of the study are: 1) to investigate whether or not dry-needling would change muscle activity of the LM muscles in asymptomatic healthy adults and in individuals with LBP, respectively, and 2) to compare the effects of two dry-needling techniques on LM muscle activation and pressure pain threshold (PPT) in asymptomatic healthy adults and individuals with LBP, respectively.

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Study ID

NCT03970486

Start date

Sep 22, 2017

Status verified date

May, 2019

Completion date

Dec 31, 2019

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 31, 2019

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • English-speaking adults and are 18 years of age or older.
  • For asymptomatic healthy adults: no existing low back pain (LBP) and no LBP in the past 6 months.
  • For individuals with LBP: existing LBP near the L5-S1 level with an average pain intensity score ≥ 2/10 in the past 24 hours (numeric pain rating scale of 0-10, 0 being no pain, 10 being unbearable pain)

Exclusion Criteria (for both the asymptomatic healthy and patients with low back pain groups) :

  • Bleeding disorders (e.g. hemophilia)
  • Use of anti-coagulants (e.g. Coumadin)
  • Previous low back surgery, systemic joint disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis)
  • Cancer of the lower quadrant,
  • Neurological disorders
  • Allergic reaction to adhesive tape
  • Inability to obtain testing positions (prone lying)

Study Design

Enrollment

80 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: Needle Manipulation

Participant will receive dry needling intervention with manipulation.

active comparator: In Situ

Participant will receive dry needling intervention without manipulation.

Interventions

Dry needling

For the needle manipulation technique, the needle will be pulled in and out (sparrow pecking) and redirected in small angles (coning) for 5-10 seconds. For the in situ technique, the needles will stay (in situ) in the left and right lumbar multifidus muscles for 10 minutes after the insertion of the needle.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change of Muscle activity [ Time Frame: Before intervention, immediately after intervention and one week after intervention ]
  • Change of Pressure pain threshold [ Time Frame: Before intervention, immediately after intervention and one week after intervention ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Sharon Wang-Price, PhD

2146897715swang@twu.edu

Locations

Texas Woman's University

Recruiting

Dallas, Texas, United States, 75235

Contacts

Sharon Wang-Price, PhD

214-689-7715swang@twu.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Texas Woman's University

Last update posted

May 31, 2019

Last verified

May, 2019

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Texas Woman's University on 2019-05-31.