[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"health-study-detail:100584639":3},{"organization":4,"armGroups":7,"interventions":25,"overallOfficials":38,"centralContacts":43,"locations":51,"responsibleParty":65,"collaborators":30,"id":69,"slug":70,"hasResults":71,"nctId":72,"briefTitle":73,"officialTitle":73,"acronym":30,"eligibilityCriteria":74,"healthyVolunteers":71,"sex":75,"minAge":76,"maxAge":77,"enrollmentInfo":78,"targetDuration":30,"studyType":81,"phases":82,"briefSummary":84,"conditions":85,"keywords":30,"overallStatus":87,"whyStopped":30,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":88,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":89,"startDateStruct":92,"completionDateStruct":94,"leadSponsor":96,"locationsCount":97},{"fullName":5,"class":6},"Cairo University","OTHER",[8,15,20],{"label":9,"type":10,"description":11,"interventionNames":12},"Acupuncture-like TENS + Conventional treatment","EXPERIMENTAL","This group will receive acupuncture like TENS with conventional treatment for 4 weeks.",[13,14],"Other: Acupuncture-like TENS","Other: Conventional treatment",{"label":16,"type":10,"description":17,"interventionNames":18},"Dry needling + Conventional treatment","This group will receive dry needling with conventional treatment for 4 weeks.",[19,14],"Other: Dry needling",{"label":21,"type":22,"description":23,"interventionNames":24},"Conventional treatment","ACTIVE_COMPARATOR","This group will receive conventional treatment for 4 weeks.",[14],[26,31,35],{"type":6,"name":27,"description":28,"armGroupLabels":29,"otherNames":30},"Acupuncture-like TENS","The first experimental group will receive 20-minute sessions of TENS, where participants adjust the amplitude to achieve strong muscle twitching beneath the electrodes at an intensity below the pain threshold. Acupuncture-like TENS uses high-frequency pulsed currents at two trains per second with an internal pulse frequency of 100 pps. The pulse pattern is set to \"burst,\" with an asymmetrical biphasic waveform and a pulse duration of 200 µs. Minor fluctuations in pulse rate between 100 and 104 pps were noted using a cathode ray oscilloscope before the experiment.",[9],null,{"type":6,"name":32,"description":33,"armGroupLabels":34,"otherNames":30},"Dry needling","The second experimental group will receive 20-minute sessions of dry needling. Patients will be positioned in a prone, relaxed position, and the overlying skin will be cleaned with alcohol. The muscle will be palpated to locate the trigger point (MTrP), with the muscle grasped between the thumb, index, and middle fingers. A solid filiform needle within a guide tube will be inserted into the MTrP using a tapping motion at an oblique angle. The upper trapezius muscle will be palpated for trigger points, with needle insertion depths ranging from 10-15mm. After obtaining a local twitch response, the needle will be moved vertically 3-5mm until no more twitch responses occur. This group will also receive 20 minutes of conventional physical therapy.",[16],{"type":6,"name":21,"description":36,"armGroupLabels":37,"otherNames":30},"All participants in the three groups will receive conventional treatment in the form of hot pack treatment followed by active range of movement (AROM) exercises. A hot pack will be placed on the patients cervical, paraspinal, and upper thoracic areas (including the upper trapezius muscle with aMTrP) for 20 minutes. This will be followed by AROM exercise for cervical spine joints. Participants were asked to actively flex the neck so that the head dropped toward the contralateral trapezius muscles. Patients then rotated the head toward ipsilateral side. This exercise will be repeated five times.",[9,21,16],[39],{"name":40,"affiliation":41,"role":42},"Neveen Abdel Latif Abdel Raoof, PhD","Professor, Cairo university","STUDY_CHAIR",[44,49],{"name":45,"role":46,"phone":47,"phoneExt":30,"email":48},"Sara Galal Mohammed Soliman, B.Sc","CONTACT","+20 12 86741048","Jalalsarah31@gmail.com",{"name":50,"role":46,"phone":30,"phoneExt":30,"email":30},"Rania Reda Mohamed, PhD",[52],{"facility":53,"status":30,"city":54,"state":30,"zip":30,"country":55,"countryCode":56,"cosmosGeoPoint":57,"geoPoint":62,"contacts":63},"Zagazig general hospital","Zagazig","Egypt","EG",{"type":58,"coordinates":59},"Point",[60,61],31.502,30.58768,{"lat":61,"lon":60},[64],{"name":45,"role":46,"phone":47,"phoneExt":30,"email":48},{"type":66,"investigatorFullName":67,"investigatorTitle":68,"investigatorAffiliation":5,"oldNameTitle":30,"oldOrganization":30},"PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR","Sara Galal Mohamed Soliman","Principal Investigator","100584639","transcutaneous-electrical-nerve-stimulation-versus-dry-needling-in-non-specific-chronic-neck-pain-100584639",false,"NCT06891963","Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Versus Dry Needling in Non Specific Chronic Neck Pain","Inclusion Criteria:\n\nHaving at least 1 active trigger point in upper trapezius muscles will use a recommended diagnostic criterion to find active MTrPs which is:\n\n* The presence of a palpable taut band in the skeletal muscle.\n* The presence of a hypersensitive spot in the taut band.\n* Local twitch response provoked by snapping palpation.\n* Production of a typical referred pain pattern in response to the compression of tender spots.\n* Spontaneous presence of the typical referred pain pattern.\n* Duration of symptoms of acute stage (2-4) weeks.\n* Age between (20-40) years.\n* Having a normal neurological examination result .\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Existence of cervical disc hernia, advanced cervical osteoarthritis, radiculopathy, or myelopathy.\n* Having trigger point injection or physical therapy in the last 6 months.\n* Having a rheumatologic disease, such as fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, or a hormonal disease, such as hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism or hyperparathyroidism.\n* Existence of kyphosis, scoliosis, forward head posture or cervicogenic headache.\n* History of spine surgery.\n* Having a cardiovascular problem.","ALL","20 Years","40 Years",{"count":79,"type":80},60,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[83],"NA","This study aims to compare between the effectiveness of Acupuncture-Like Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (Acupuncture-like TENS) and dry needling on pain intensity, Pressure pain threshold (PPT) of upper trapezius myofascial trigger points, neck range of motion, and neck function in patients with non specific chronic neck pain.",[86],"Non Specific Chronic Neck Pain","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2025-03-18",{"date":90,"type":91},"2025-03-24","ACTUAL",{"date":93,"type":80},"2025-03-25",{"date":95,"type":80},"2025-05-31",{"name":5,"class":6},1]