The aim of the study is to assess the efficacy of dry needling in stroke patients in combination with intensive neurological physiotherapy. together with intensive neurological physiotherapy treatment. Randomised and blinded experimental study control group where the sample recruited was 20 patients, who were randomly assigned to a control group. randomly assigned to a control group, where they received intensive treatment, or to an intervention group, where they received intervention group, where they received ultrasound-guided dry needling of the tibialis anterior and posterior muscles followed by an intensive followed by intensive neurological physiotherapy treatment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
20
is a physiotherapy treatment for neurological patients and studies the efficacy of dry needling by studying several pre-treatment and post-treatment variables after the experimental treatment.
is a physiotherapy treatment for neurological patients
Universidad Católica de Ávila
Ávila, Spain
walking motor skills
measures of gait motor ability using the time up ang go test.
Time frame: 1 hour
spasticity
measurements of spatiality using the modified Ashworth scale
Time frame: 1 hour
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