Effectiveness Of DN and STM Combined With Self-Stretching for Management of Calf and Heel Pain

March 31, 2023 updated by: Muhammad Naveed Babur, Superior University

Effectiveness Of Dry Needling and Soft Tissue Mobilization Combined With Self-Stretching for Management of Calf and Heel Pain

To determine the effectiveness of dry needling and soft tissue mobilization with self-stretching for the management of calf and heel pain. In our topic pain and physical dysfunction are our variables

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

54

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients will be between the ages of 25 to 60 years.
  • Female and males.
  • History of heel and calf pain.
  • Pain level moderate .
  • Trigger point / inactive trigger points.
  • Acute stage patients.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Phobias like injections or needles.
  • Unwilling patients
  • Patients on anticoagulant medicines.
  • Patients with RA
  • Fibromyalgia syndrome.
  • Pateint with recent trauma and surgery.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Dry needling along stretches and soft tissues therapy
Diagnostic test: Dry Needling
Dry needling treatment will be consisting of two treatments per week
Active Comparator: stretching and soft tissue mobilization
Diagnostic test: Self Stretching
Self stretching groups both will receive a TrP manual interventions and stretching protocol

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Dry Needling and Soft Tissue Mobilization with Self-Stretching
Time Frame: 6 Months
Effectiveness Of Dry Needling and Soft Tissue Mobilization Combined with Self-Stretching for Management of Calf and Heel Pain
6 Months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Superior University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Anticipated)

April 1, 2023

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

June 1, 2023

Study Completion (Anticipated)

August 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 15, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 31, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

April 12, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 12, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 31, 2023

Last Verified

March 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • DPT/Batch-Fall18/520

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

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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