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The Patient Expectation in Dry Needling and Analgesia

NCT03673319 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2019-08-19

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Summary

This study will evaluate placebo mechanisms related to dry needling(DN) trying to determinate whether an additive effect occurs when DN is provided with an instructional set known to enhance placebo analgesia. External manipulation of patient expectation for receiving DN will be performed, in a similar way as has been already done in studies investigating the influence of expectation on spinal manipulative therapy interventions. The main purpose of this study will be therefore to determine, for the first time, how subjects' expectation about the effect of DN influences the resultant hypoalgesia. Analgesic effects of DN will be assessed using the conditioned pain modulation (CPM) paradigm, which has not been previously evaluated in relation to DN.

Conditions

  • Neck Pain

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Dry needling with positives expectation

DN procedure: "is a very effective form of treatment used to treat neck-shoulder pain and it is expected to reduce your perception of pressure pain"

PROCEDURE

Dry needling with neutral expectation

DN procedure: "is a form of treatment used to treat neck-shoulder pain that has unknown effects on your perception of pressure pain"

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alcala

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel Pecos-Martin, Phd · Alcala University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-10-04
Primary Completion
2019-04-30
Completion
2019-07-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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