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Last refreshed on: 1 February 2016
Main ID:  NCT02558686
Date of registration: 21/09/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Public title: Exercise and Post-dry Needling Soreness
Scientific title: Effects of Eccentric Exercise, Sham or Placebo on Post-Needling Soreness by Dry Needling on Active Trigger Points
Date of first enrolment: October 2015
Target sample size: 90
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02558686
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Spain
Contacts
Name:     Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas, PhD
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Affiliation:  Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Unilateral non-traumatic shoulder pain

- Shoulder pain from at least 6 months

- Shoulder pain of more than 3 points on a NPRS

- Presence of active trigger point in the infraspinatus muscle

Exclusion Criteria:

- bilateral shoulder pain

- younger than 18 or older than 65 years

- shoulder injury

- upper extremity surgery

- fibromyalgia syndrome

- neck or shoulder surgery

- cervical radiculopathy

- whiplash

- any type of intervention for the neck-shoulder the previous year



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Shoulder Pain
Intervention(s)
Other: Detuned Ultrasound
Other: Eccentric Exercise
Other: Placebo
Primary Outcome(s)
Changes in post-dry needling pain intensity before and after the intervention [Time Frame: Baseline, 24 hours after, 48 hours after and 72 hours after treatment]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Changes in disability before and after the intervention [Time Frame: Baseline and 72 hours after treatment]
Changes in spontaneous shoulder pain before and after the intervention [Time Frame: Baseline and 72 hours after treatment]
Changes in functionality before and after the intervention [Time Frame: Baseline and 72 hours after treatment]
Secondary ID(s)
URJC 2015-12
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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Date Completed:
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