The effect of dry needling on pain and disability in total knee arthroplasty patients.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Total knee arthroplasty.
- Registration Number
- IRCT20180716040489N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 25
Inclusion Criteria
Having total knee athroplasty
Having Active Trigger Point in Knee Muscles such as Quadriceps , Hamstring,Gastrosoleus
Having visual analogue scale (VAS) > 40
Age between 55 to 80 years old
Having knee full extension
The ability to read and write
Exclusion Criteria
Having radicular pain or neuropathy
Having fibromyalgia, hypothyroedism, meralgia parethesia
Having systemic disease or myopathy or malignancy
Fear of needling
Taking anticoagulants
Taking NSAIDs
Total hip arthroplasty in the same side
Painful total knee arthroplasty in opposite side less than 6 month ago
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain score. Timepoint: one week and one month after treatment. Method of measurement: pain is investigated by Visual Analoge Scale .;Function score by Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score(KOOS). Timepoint: one week and one month after treatment. Method of measurement: .FUNCTION IS Investigated by Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score(KOOS).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Knee diability. Timepoint: Before the intervention, one week and one month after treatment. Method of measurement: Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score.