COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFICACY OF HYALURONIC ACID, DRY NEEDLING AND COMBINED TREATMENT IN PATELLAR OSTEOARTHRITIS

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Osteoarthritis

• Registration Number: NCT03743818
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad Católica de Ávila

Brief Summary

Randomized clinical trial in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Sixty patients will be evaluated, divided in three groups (20 in each). One group A will be treated by dry needling in the vast internal, other group B will be treated with a standardized treatment protocol (electrotherapy and manual therapy), and group C will be treated with hialuronic acid. The investigators want to observe which technique is the most effective in osteoarthritis.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-11-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-11-15
• Study First Posted: 2018-11-16
• Study Start: 2020-07-08
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-15
• Status Verified: 2021-04
• Study Completion: 2021-04-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-04-26
• Last Update Posted: 2021-04-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients with knee pain and diagnosed of osteoarthritis knee and confirm RNM
• More 18 years.
• Less 55 years

Exclusion Criteria

• More 55 years.
• Less 18 years.
• mental dysfunction
• those who have any type of complication that can cause myofascial or neuropathic pain in the lower limb, such as lumbo-sacral radiculopathy, neuropraxia, neurothymesis, axonotmesis, or meralgia paraesthetica; who have any condition generally considered to be a factor in perpetuating TrPs, such as fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, or iron deficiency; and patients who may have a fear of needles (belonephobia) will be excluded.

Patients with lower limb dysmetries of 0.50 cm or more were also excluded from this study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Visual Analog Scale	1 month	Pain 0 maximum pain score---------10 minimum pain score

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
International Physical Activity Questionnaire scale	1 month	questions to mesure physical activity. 7 questions about the time that employed the patients in activities physical ( hours/day, minutes/day, days/week or any activity).
Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC scale)	1 month	scale with questions to mesure pain,(5 questions), stiffness (2 questions) and physical function (17 questions). There are five answers in each questions: none, mild, moderate, severe and extreme.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Fisiosalud Avila; 🇪🇸 Avila, Spain