Dry Needling in Subjects With Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (TDNDOMS)

Biomechanical Response to Dry Needling in Subjects With Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness: a Double Blind Randomized Control Trial

Investigation of the biomechanical response in delayed onset muscle soreness using dry needling vs. sham

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Dry needling; Other: Sham needling

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 36
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Joseph Kelly, PhD; Phone Number: 30969772545; Email: jpkelly@bradley.edu
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Joseph Kelly; Phone Number: 3096930658; Email: jpkelly@fsmail.bradley.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Illinois
    • Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61625
      • Bradley University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 35 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• The participants of the study will be any healthy male or female between
• age of 18 to 35
• able and willing to perform an exercise protocol using the gastrocnemius muscle
• willing to receive either sham or dry needling intervention

Exclusion Criteria:

• current muscular pain
• prior trigger point therapy in the past 6 months
• medications that affect muscle function
• injury in the past 6 months
• any health condition that prevents exercising
• recent surgery

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Dry needling; Dry needling intervention to the gastrocnemius muscle trigger point	Other: Dry needling; The use of a solid filiform needle to treat trigger points
Sham Comparator: Sham needling; Sham dry needling intervention to the gastrocnemius muscle trigger point	Other: Sham needling; Simulated needling

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Biomechanical stiffness (N/m) using MyotonPRO	Measuring Biomechanical stiffness ( N/m) change at the following time frames	baseline, immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Pressure pain threshold using pressure algometry	Measuring Pressure pain threshold change at the following time frames	baseline, immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Bradley University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 30, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 23, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): May 23, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 5, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 13, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): March 15, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 27, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 26, 2023
• Last Verified: July 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Nervous System Diseases; Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Muscular Diseases; Neuromuscular Diseases; Musculoskeletal Pain; Myalgia
• Other Study ID Numbers: CUHSR 71-18

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No