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The Effect of Dry Needling on Trunk Muscle Function in Low Back Pain Patients

NCT02250742 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2016-05-24

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Summary

The study will establish data on the function of trunk muscles in healthy and low back pain patient's pre and post dry needling treatment. This will help in understanding the underlying mechanism of this treatment and reveal the effect of dry needling on muscle performance.

Study hypothesis is that an improvement of back muscle function following dry needling procedure will be found.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

dry needling

Dry needling uses traditional acupuncture needles without injecting any liquid. Dry needling is based on traditional Western medicine whereby the needle insertion sites are located in known anatomical landmarks such as skeletal muscles, fascia and occasionally joints, tendons and bone/tendon junctions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Haifa

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gali Dar, PhD · University of Haifa, Department of Physical Therapy

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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