Dry needling for chronic low back pain relief

Is this trial a fit for you?

A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.

What this trial studies

This study investigates the effectiveness of dry needling combined with routine physical therapy in alleviating pain, functional disability, postural control, and pain pressure threshold in patients suffering from chronic nonspecific low back pain. Participants aged 18 to 45 with moderate pain will be randomly assigned to either an experimental group receiving dry needling or a control group receiving sham dry needling. The primary outcomes measured will be pain intensity and functional disability, while secondary outcomes will include postural control and pain pressure threshold, assessed before and one week after the intervention.

Why it matters

Who can join: the full rules

Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients age between 18 to 45 years.
* Moderate pain at rest (between 30 and 60 in NPRS).
* Patients with trigger points in the lumbar multifidus muscle.
* Patients have the ability to speak and read Persian.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Currently taking anticoagulant medications
* Specific low back pain (Neurogenic low back pain, Spinal stenosis, cauda equina syndrome, spondylolisthesis, and Presence of any signs or symptoms of non-musculoskeletal pathology e.g. cancer, infection and fracture in low back and lower extremities based on paraclinical findings)
* Prior surgery to the lumbosacral spine
* Inability to obtain prone lying
* Severe malalignments in the cervical, thoracic, lumbar or pelvic region and the lower limbs
* History of uncorrected vision impairment, vestibular, hearing or cognitive impairments
* Leg length discrepancy which disturbs balance
* Systemic diseases, such as diabetes, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative diseases and other rheumatoid diseases
* Needle phobia
* Sacroiliac pain as identified with six clinical tests: compression, distraction, sacral thrust, thigh thrust, Gaenslen's and FABER's

Where it's running

• Physical therapy clinic at rehabilitation center of Iran university of medical sciences
  Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran Recruiting

Study contacts

• Study coordinator: Bahareh Firouzeh, Bachelor
• Email: baharefirouze74@gmail.com
• Phone: +98-9908080623

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How to take part

1. Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
2. Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
3. Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.