Session Information
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Title: Orthopedics, Low Back Pain and Rehabilitation Poster (ARHP): Rehabilitation Sciences
Session Type: ACR Poster Session C
Session Time: 9:00AM-11:00AM
Background/Purpose: The aim
of this study was to compare
the therapeutic effects of kinesio taping (KT),traditional physical therapy and dry needling
therapy in patients with myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) at trapezius region, with regard to
pain, and disability.
Methods : Sixty-eight
female patients with MPS were enrolled
into the study. Demographic and clinical characteristics
including age, sex, duration of disease were recorded.
The patients were randomized
into three treatment groups receiving either a single dry needling
injection to trigger points in the trapezius muscle
(n=21), local physical therapy (hot pack and ultrasound) for 10 sessions (n=18) or kinesio taping
performed to trapezius muscle, three times by
intervals of 3 day (n=19). Visual
analog scale (VAS) was used to assess
pain intensity Neck Pain and
Disability Index (NDI) was performed to evaluate
functional disability, before treatment, at the end of therapies
and four weeks after the
therapies. All groups were educated
for home exercise programme to perform trapezius
stretching exercises.
Results : Sixty-eight
female patients with a mean age
of 32.1 ±10.7 years; mean disease duration of 13.1± 10.2 months were included
in the study. There were no
differences between the groups regarding
demographic variables on entry to the
study (p>0.05). Pain and
NDI scores were improved significantly in all groups at the
end of therapies and four weeks
after, and these improvements were statistically similar between the groups at ANOVA analysis with Bonferroni
adjustments (Table 1,
p>0.05).
Conclusion : We imply that single
dose dry needling injection, three times of kinesio taping by 3 day intervals
and 10 sessions of physical therapy have favorable effects on pain and functional status in the early
period (up to one month)
in MPS. Although the improvements in pain and functional disability were similar between the groups, we
suggest that KT may be an alternative non-invasive and time consuming method for patients suffering
from MPS syndrome in the early period.
Table 1: The scores of pain intensity and neck
disability index at baseline, at the end therapies and
four weeks after the therapies
(*improvement differences between groups,ANOVA).
|
Dry needling n=21 |
Kinesio taping n=19 |
Physical therapy n=18 |
P
|
|
|
VAS-pain Baseline At the end of therapy 4 weeks after therapy |
5.71±1.87 3.12±2.7 2.61±2.31 |
5.15±1.51 1.89±1.28 1.71±1.61 |
5.33±1.9 1.8±1.51 1.75±1.38 |
*>0.05 |
|
Neck Disability index Baseline At the end of therapy 4 weeks after therapy |
52.4±12.9 24.8±19.7 21.33±17.2 |
46.4±15.1 21.4±12.8 17.8±14.8 |
48.38±13.2 18.05±10.7 16.11±13.6 |
*>0.05 |
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
Gumustepe A, Borman P, Kaygisiz F, Ayhan F, Karagoz A. The Comparative Efficacy of Dry Needling, Kinesio Taping and Physical Therapy in Patients with Myofascial Pain Syndrome [abstract]. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2015; 67 (suppl 10). https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/the-comparative-efficacy-of-dry-needling-kinesio-taping-and-physical-therapy-in-patients-with-myofascial-pain-syndrome/. Accessed .« Back to 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
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