Dry Needling Effectiveness of Patients on Break Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

NCT02699411 | Unknown DMC

• 1 other identifier: European University
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

We will conduct a randomized clinical trial observing forty patients divided into two groups: one group composed of twenty individuals undergoing surgery for ruptured ACL, which perform dry needling of myofascial trigger (PGM) point of the vastus muscle and then perform techniques proprioception (group a); and twenty patients not be treated with dry needling after ACL surgery, using only proprioceptive exercises to the joint (group B).

Conditions

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Keywords

ligament anterior cruciate , dry needling, physioterapy, propioception, knee arthroplasty, vastus medialis.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Degree range of motion (ROM)

  24 hours

• Scores ofThe Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC)

  24 hours

• Pain scores visual analog scale (EVA)

  24 hours

• Scores of STAR BALANCE TEST

  24

Secondary Outcomes (8)

• Degree range of motion (ROM)

  1 week

• Degree range of motion (ROM)

  5 weeks

• Scores ofThe Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC)

  1 week

• Scores ofThe Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC)

  5 weeks

• Pain scores visual analog scale (EVA)

  1 week

Study Arms (2)

dry needling

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Dry needling on the vastus is performed in patients undergoing ACL fortnight after the intervention and then evaluated. REL dry needling while supplies last twenty insertions before treatment, at midnight, a week and five weeks.

Device: Dry needling

Stability and propioception

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Proprioception and stability exercises in patients undergoing ACL fortnight after the intervention and then evaluates performed before treatment, at midnight, a week and five weeks.

Other: Stability and propioception

Interventions

Dry needling DEVICE

dry needling Travell and Simons

dry needling

Stability and propioception OTHER

Start excursion balance test, WOMAC; ROM, EVA.

Stability and propioception

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 55 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• over eighteen and anatomically mature surgically break LCA and valued above using MRI and functional tests to confirm the rupture of the ligament.

You may not qualify if:

• Patients who did not reach 18 years of age and those over 55,
• postoperative complications
• cause myofascial or neuropathic pain in the lower limb, as lumba-sacral radiculopathy, neuropraxia, neurotmesis, axonotmesis or meralgia paresthetica;
• fibromyalgia.
• hypothyroidism
• iron deficiencies and patients who had a fear of needles (fear of needles).
• Lower limb differences.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• European University Spain: lead

Study Sites (1)

Jorge Velázquez Saornil

Madrid, Spain

RECRUITING

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MeSH Terms

Interventions

Dry Needling

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Physical Therapy Modalities

Study Officials

• Jorge Velázquez, Sr

  European University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Jorge Velázquez, sr

CONTACT

+34655909940; jorgevelasa@yahoo.es

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Physiotherapist

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 26, 2016
• First Posted: March 4, 2016
• Study Start: February 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2016
• Study Completion: September 1, 2016
• Last Updated: March 4, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

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