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Immediate effects of Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation versus Ischemic Compression on pain, pressure pain tolerance and side bend in individuals with one side neck pain of short duratio

Not Applicable
Conditions
Health Condition 1: M629- Disorder of muscle, unspecified
Registration Number
CTRI/2023/10/058709
Lead Sponsor
K J Somaiya college of physiotherapy
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

a) unilateral neck pain, less than 7 days

b) active myofascial trigger point diagnosed as per Gerwin and Simon criteria

c) numerical pain rating scale score of 4-7 points.

Exclusion Criteria

a) Patient having needle phobia

b) Patient on anticoagulant therapy and/or bleeding disorder

c) Tumour

d) Migraine

e) Any cervical surgery

f) Any cervical pathology such as spondylosis, spondylolysis, disc prolapse,

spinal stenosis, ankylosing spondylitis, fracture, cervicogenic dizziness, etc.

g) Pregnancy

h) Compromised immune therapy

i) Diabetes

j) Epilepsy

k) Vascular disease

l) Temporomandibular joint dysfunction

m) Conditions with thoracic spine involvement

n) Infective conditions (neck abscess, osteomyelitis, pott’s spine, TB lung)

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1. Pressure Pain threshold <br/ ><br>2. Numerical Pain Rating Scale <br/ ><br>3. Lateral FlexionTimepoint: Pre-intervention: Baseline assessment <br/ ><br>post-intervention: immediately after 1st session
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
nilTimepoint: nil
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