A Study to Analyse the Immediate Effect of Dry Needling and Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Therapy on Hand Grip Strength

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Muscle Weakness Condition
• Interventions: Combination Product: Dry needling and Extra corporeal Shock wave therapy

• Registration Number: NCT04645758
• Lead Sponsor: Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre, Medina, Saudi Arabia

Brief Summary

An argument to analyse the Immediate effect of dry needling or extra corporeal shock wave therapy on hand grip strength in normal healthy individuals with a hypothesis of dry needling or shock wave on forearm muscles have influence on the hand grip strength.

Detailed Description

After written consent obtained from all the participants randomization and allocation will be done with sealed non transparent envelopes and participants will be assign to two groups Dry needling(DN) and Extra corporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT).Pre and post data of hand grip strength measured with Jamar hand dynamometer.Post data shall be collected precisely after 1 hr of intervention from both groups.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-09-22
• Status Verified: 2020-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-11-22
• Study First Posted: 2020-11-27
• Study Start: 2020-11-29
• Primary Completion: 2020-11-29
• Study Completion: 2020-11-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-11-29
• Last Update Posted: 2020-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 27

Inclusion Criteria

• No pain on the visual analog scoring scale of 100 mm scale,
• Muscle power of 4+ on oxford manual muscle testing of forearm and wrist extrinsic and intrinsic muscles
• Full range of motion in all dominant upper extremity joints.

Exclusion Criteria

• History of previous fractures of the dominant upper extremity,
• Teno-synovitis of flexor tendons ,
• Dequervains synovitis,
• Left hand dominance.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Dry Needling Group or (DN)	Dry needling and Extra corporeal Shock wave therapy	Dry needling for 5 mins on the flexor group of muscles of dominant forearm.
Extra corporeal Shockwave therapy Group or (ESWT)	Dry needling and Extra corporeal Shock wave therapy	Delivering of Shock wave pulses of 1250 at the energy intensity of 0.58 mj/mm2 on the flexor group of muscles of dominant forearm

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Hand Grip Strength	Post 1 hours of Intervention in both groups	Measurement of Hand Grip Strength with Jamar Dynamometer

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre; 🇸🇦 Medina, Saudi Arabia