Combined dry-needling, advice and exercise: a randomized controlled trial in chronic whiplash
- Conditions
- Musculoskeletal - Other muscular and skeletal disorderschronic whiplash associated disorders
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12609000470291
- Lead Sponsor
- A/Prof Michele Sterling
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Whiplash associated disorder Grade II of at least 3 months duration but less than 12 months duration.
Whiplash causes at least moderate pain and disability with scores of greater or equal to 28/100 on the Neck Disability Index (NDI).
The presence of sensory hypersensitivity, defined as the presence of 2 out of a possible 3 of the following: cold pain threshold (> 15 degrees celcius, males and females); pressure pain thresholds over the cervical spine (females < 185 kPa. Males < 210 kPa); pressure pain thresholds over the median nerve (females < 210 kPa. Males < 250 kPa)
Not currently receiving care for whiplash.
Participants should be naïve to the use of dry needling in the treatment of musculoskeletal pain.
Known or suspected serious spinal pathology (e.g. metastatic, inflammatory or infective diseases of the spine).
Confirmed fracture or dislocation at time of injury.
Nerve root compromise (at least 2 of the following signs: weakness/reflex changes/sensory loss, associated with the same spinal nerve).
Spinal surgery in the past 12 months.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method eck Disability Index (NDI): a neck specific measure of pain and disability[6, 12, 24 and 52 weeks after randomisation]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Average pain intensity over last week (0-10 scale)[6, 12, 24 and 52 weeks after randomisation]