[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"health-study-detail:100446972":3},{"organization":4,"armGroups":7,"interventions":20,"overallOfficials":30,"centralContacts":35,"locations":44,"responsibleParty":63,"collaborators":25,"id":65,"slug":66,"hasResults":67,"nctId":68,"briefTitle":69,"officialTitle":70,"acronym":25,"eligibilityCriteria":71,"healthyVolunteers":67,"sex":72,"minAge":73,"maxAge":74,"enrollmentInfo":75,"targetDuration":25,"studyType":78,"phases":79,"briefSummary":81,"conditions":82,"keywords":84,"overallStatus":47,"whyStopped":25,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":88,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":89,"startDateStruct":92,"completionDateStruct":94,"leadSponsor":96,"locationsCount":97},{"fullName":5,"class":6},"Iran University of Medical Sciences","OTHER",[8,14],{"label":9,"type":10,"description":11,"interventionNames":12},"Experimental group","EXPERIMENTAL","The experimental group will comprise 20 participants with chronic non-specific low back pain. The treatment will include dry needling of the lumbar multifidus muscle and routine physical therapy. The needles will be inserted to obtain local twitch response, and this process will continue until no more local twitch response occurs in each session. Then the needles will be left in place for 20 minutes. Routine physical therapy will include low level laser therapy and motor control training. The treatment will last 3 weeks, 6 sessions, twice a week.",[13],"Other: dry needling",{"label":15,"type":16,"description":17,"interventionNames":18},"Control group","PLACEBO_COMPARATOR","The control group will comprise 20 participants with chronic non-specific low back pain. The treatment will include \"sham\" dry needling of the lumbar multifidus muscle and routine physical therapy. The sham dry needling method consists of the insertion of the needles subcutaneously and no local twitch response will be obtained. The needles will be left in the place for 20 minutes. Routine physical therapy will include low level laser therapy and motor control training. The treatment will last 3 weeks, 6 sessions, twice a week.",[19],"Other: sham (placebo) dry needling",[21,26],{"type":6,"name":22,"description":23,"armGroupLabels":24,"otherNames":25},"dry needling","The patients will be placed in a prone position with a pillow under their belly to accommodate lumbar lordosis. Two lengths of sterile, disposable, 0.30 mm x 75 mm and 0.30 mm x 50 mm solid filament needle (Tony, China) will be used in this study. The length of the needle for each participant will be selected based on the size of the participant. The needles will be inserted into the lumbar multifidus muscle, 1.5 - 2 cm lateral to the spinous process of two or three painful segments, perpendicular to lamina (after piercing the skin, needles are directed inferomedially). The needles will be inserted to obtain local twitch response, and this process will continue until no more local twitch response occurs in each session. Then the needles will be left in place for 20 minutes.",[9],null,{"type":6,"name":27,"description":28,"armGroupLabels":29,"otherNames":25},"sham (placebo) dry needling","The sham dry needling method includes the insertion of the needles subcutaneously and no local twitch response will be obtained. The needles will be left in the place for 20 minutes.",[15],[31],{"name":32,"affiliation":33,"role":34},"Mohammadreza Pourahmadi, PhD","Rehabilitation Research Center, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran","STUDY_DIRECTOR",[36,41],{"name":37,"role":38,"phone":39,"phoneExt":25,"email":40},"Bahareh Firouzeh, Bachelor","CONTACT","+98-9908080623","baharefirouze74@gmail.com",{"name":32,"role":38,"phone":42,"phoneExt":25,"email":43},"+98-9122245593","pourahmadipt@gmail.com",[45],{"facility":46,"status":47,"city":48,"state":49,"zip":50,"country":51,"countryCode":52,"cosmosGeoPoint":53,"geoPoint":58,"contacts":59},"Physical therapy clinic at rehabilitation center of Iran university of medical sciences","RECRUITING","Tehran","Tehran Province","1545913487","Iran","IR",{"type":54,"coordinates":55},"Point",[56,57],51.42151,35.69439,{"lat":57,"lon":56},[60],{"name":61,"role":38,"phone":62,"phoneExt":25,"email":43},"Mohammadreza Pourahmadi, assistant professor","09122245593",{"type":64,"investigatorFullName":25,"investigatorTitle":25,"investigatorAffiliation":25,"oldNameTitle":25,"oldOrganization":25},"SPONSOR","100446972","effectiveness-of-dry-needling-in-patients-with-chronic-nonspecific-low-back-pain-100446972",false,"NCT05100381","Effectiveness of Dry Needling in Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain","Effectiveness of Dry Needling on Pain, Functional Disability, Postural Control and Pain Pressure Threshold in Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Double-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Patients age between 18 to 45 years.\n* Moderate pain at rest (between 30 and 60 in NPRS).\n* Patients with trigger points in the lumbar multifidus muscle.\n* Patients have the ability to speak and read Persian.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Currently taking anticoagulant medications\n* Specific low back pain (Neurogenic low back pain, Spinal stenosis, cauda equina syndrome, spondylolisthesis, and Presence of any signs or symptoms of non-musculoskeletal pathology e.g. cancer, infection and fracture in low back and lower extremities based on paraclinical findings)\n* Prior surgery to the lumbosacral spine\n* Inability to obtain prone lying\n* Severe malalignments in the cervical, thoracic, lumbar or pelvic region and the lower limbs\n* History of uncorrected vision impairment, vestibular, hearing or cognitive impairments\n* Leg length discrepancy which disturbs balance\n* Systemic diseases, such as diabetes, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative diseases and other rheumatoid diseases\n* Needle phobia\n* Sacroiliac pain as identified with six clinical tests: compression, distraction, sacral thrust, thigh thrust, Gaenslen's and FABER's","ALL","18 Years","45 Years",{"count":76,"type":77},40,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[80],"NA","Low back pain is a major health problem that affects psychosocial, economical, functional and physical aspects of the patients' life. The aim of this study will be to investigate the effectiveness of dry needling on pain, functional disability, postural control and pain pressure threshold in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain using a randomized controlled trial design.\n\nPatients with chronic nonspecific low back pain will be randomly divided into two groups: Experimental group (dry needling and routine physical therapy) and control group (sham dry needling and routine physical therapy). Primary outcomes will be pain intensity and functional disability. Postural control and pain pressure threshold will be considered as secondary outcomes.",[83],"Low Back Pain",[22,83,85,86,87],"functional disability","postural control","pain pressure threshold","2025-05-01",{"date":90,"type":91},"2025-05-02","ACTUAL",{"date":93,"type":91},"2022-07-25",{"date":95,"type":77},"2026-12-30",{"name":5,"class":6},1]