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Trigger Point Dry Needling vs Trigger Point Dry Needling With Intramuscular Electrical Stimulation

NCT03539588 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2018-05-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

trigger point dry needling with intramuscular electrical stimulation vs trigger point dry needling

Conditions

  • Sub-acute and Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

DEVICE

trigger point dry needling

placement of the dry needle into the muscle tissue to elicit a local twitch response. Only MYOTECH dry needles and ESTIM II dual channel stimulator will be used in this study. However we are not studying the equipment.

DEVICE

Electrical Stimulation

uses the dry needles as nodes to stimulate muscular contraction. Only MYOTECH dry needles and ESTIM II dual channel stimulator will be used in this study. However we are not studying the equipment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • William Beaumont Army Medical Center

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • David K Hulsizer, DPT · WBAMC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-12
Primary Completion
2017-11-13
Completion
2017-11-13

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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