Recruiting

Dry Needling

Sponsor:

Youngstown State University

Code:

NCT05140291

Conditions

Headache

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Dry Needling

Sham Dry Needling

Study Details

Brief summary:

Currently, it is unknown if dry needling when performed to the trigeminal innervation field improves neck pain and or headache for patients with cervicogenic headaches. The aim of this study is to determine if dry needling of the trigeminal innervation field improves pain, pain-pressure thresholds, and neck mobility in patients with cervicogenic headaches, with or without migraine.

Conditions

Headache

Study ID

NCT05140291

Start date

Dec 3, 2021

Status verified date

Nov, 2021

Completion date

Apr 30, 2022

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr 30, 2022

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Aged 18 or older
  • Symptoms: (1)Unilateral pain starting in the neck and radiating to the frontotemporal region or posterior fossa, (2) pain aggravated by neck movement, (3) restricted cervical range of motion, (4) non-throbbing and non-lancinatingnpain, 5) dysfunction/headache pain in at least one of the joints of the upper cervical spine(C0-C4), and (6) headache frequency of at least 1 per week over a period greater than 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Pain <2/10
  • Contraindications to the interventions
  • Whiplash associated disorder within 6 weeks
  • Pending litigation for neck pain and/or headache.

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Dry needling

Experimental Group

sham comparator: Sham Needling

Sham Group

Interventions

Dry Needling

1/2" needles will placed into defined innervation fields of the trigeminal nerve and rotated. Total time will be 5-7 minutes.

Sham Dry Needling

Needle handles inside of guide tubes will be tapped in a way similar to an actual needle being set but the sham needles will be blunted.

Primary outcome measure

  • Headache or neck pain intensity on a Numeric pain rating scale (0-10) [ Time Frame: <1 hour ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

David W Griswold, PhD

3307015353dwgriswold@ysu.edu

Locations

Youngstown State University

Recruiting

Youngstown, Ohio, United States, 44406

Contacts

David W Griswold, PhD, DPT

330-941-2419dwgriswold@ysu.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Youngstown State University

Last update posted

Jan 11, 2022

Last verified

Nov, 2021

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Youngstown State University on 2022-01-11.