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    <main>
      <trial_id>IRCT20220804055615N3</trial_id>
      <utrn></utrn>
      <reg_name>IRCT</reg_name>
      <date_registration>2023-03-19</date_registration>
      <primary_sponsor>Memon College of Physical and Rehasbilitaive Medicine</primary_sponsor>
      <public_title>Effects of trigger point dry needling among patients with anterior knee pain</public_title>
      <acronym></acronym>
      <scientific_title>Effects of trigger point dry needling among patients with anterior knee pain</scientific_title>
      <scientific_acronym></scientific_acronym>
      <date_enrolment>2023-03-27</date_enrolment>
      <type_enrolment>anticipated</type_enrolment>
      <target_size>30</target_size>
      <recruitment_status>Complete</recruitment_status>
      <url>https://irct.ir/trial/68928</url>
      <study_type>interventional</study_type>
      <study_design>Randomization: Not randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Single, Purpose: Treatment, Other design features: physical therapist will collect the data and participants will age between 20-45 years.</study_design>
      <phase>1</phase>
      <hc_freetext>Anterior knee pain.</hc_freetext>
      <i_freetext>Intervention group: After taking informed consent from patient and wearing gloves and appropriate personal protective measures, a thin filiform needle will be inserted which will penetrate into the skin and stimulate underlying myofascial trigger points. Data will be compared at baseline and after the intervention. The data will be collected through the following questionnaire/forms i-e Kujala scoring questionnaire.</i_freetext>
      <results_actual_enrolment></results_actual_enrolment>
      <results_date_completed></results_date_completed>
      <results_url_link></results_url_link>
      <results_summary></results_summary>
      <results_date_posted></results_date_posted>
      <results_date_first_publication></results_date_first_publication>
      <results_baseline_char></results_baseline_char>
      <results_participant_flow></results_participant_flow>
      <results_adverse_events></results_adverse_events>
      <results_outcome_measures></results_outcome_measures>
      <results_url_protocol></results_url_protocol>
      <results_IPD_plan>Yes - There is a plan to make this available</results_IPD_plan>
      <results_IPD_description>What will be shared:
All patients will see in OPD

When:
it will take 6 month

To whom:
Only data collector and researcher

Conditions:
Data will analysis by SPSS and researcher will review the results

Where to obtain:
Hospital out patients department

How to obtain:
consent form will be signed before taking the data

Comments:
this is quasi experimental study</results_IPD_description>
    </main>
    <contacts>
      <contact>
        <type>public</type>
        <firstname>Mohabbat Ali</firstname>
        <middlename></middlename>
        <lastname></lastname>
        <address>Safoora Goth</address>
        <city>Karachi</city>
        <country1>Pakistan</country1>
        <zip>75270</zip>
        <telephone>+92 21 99261810</telephone>
        <email>mohabbat.ali@mhef.edu.pk</email>
        <affiliation>Memon Medical Institute Hospital</affiliation>
      </contact>
      <contact>
        <type>scientific</type>
        <firstname>Mohabbat Ali</firstname>
        <middlename></middlename>
        <lastname></lastname>
        <address>Safoora Goth</address>
        <city>Karachi</city>
        <country1>Pakistan</country1>
        <zip>75270</zip>
        <telephone>+92 21 99261810</telephone>
        <email>ramal_209@yahoo.com</email>
        <affiliation>Memon Medical Intitute Hospital</affiliation>
      </contact>
    </contacts>
    <countries>
      <country2>Pakistan</country2>
    </countries>
    <criteria>
      <inclusion_criteria>Male with age between 20 to 45 years
Subjects having anterior knee pain
Subjects with myofasical trigger points in quadriceps muscle</inclusion_criteria>
      <agemin>20 years</agemin>
      <agemax>45 years</agemax>
      <gender>Male</gender>
      <exclusion_criteria>Patients taking anticoagulant medications
Patients with meniscal tears, patellar tendinopathy , ligamentous injury
Patients with knee osteoarthritis
Patients with lumbosacral nerve root or peripheral nerve involvement
Patients having a history of prior knee surgery
Patients who had received acupuncture, dry needling or injection for knee pain during the past 6 months</exclusion_criteria>
    </criteria>
    <health_condition_code>
      <hc_code>M25.569</hc_code>
    </health_condition_code>
    <health_condition_keyword>
      <hc_keyword>ICD-10 code M25. 569 for Pain in unspecified knee is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Arthropathies</hc_keyword>
    </health_condition_keyword>
    <intervention_code>
      <i_code>Rehabilitation</i_code>
    </intervention_code>
    <intervention_keyword>
      <i_keyword>Intervention group: After taking informed consent from patient and wearing gloves and appropriate personal protective measures, a thin filiform needle will be inserted which will penetrate into the skin and stimulate underlying myofascial trigger points. Data will be compared at baseline and after the intervention. The data will be collected through the following questionnaire/forms i-e Kujala scoring questionnaire</i_keyword>
    </intervention_keyword>
    <primary_outcome>
      <prim_outcome>To treat the anterior knee pain. Timepoint: Before intervention and after 3 week of intervention. Method of measurement: Kujala scoring questionnair and visual analog scale.</prim_outcome>
    </primary_outcome>
    <secondary_outcome>
      <sec_outcome></sec_outcome>
    </secondary_outcome>
    <secondary_sponsor>
      <sponsor_name></sponsor_name>
    </secondary_sponsor>
    <secondary_ids>
      <secondary_id>
        <sec_id></sec_id>
        <issuing_authority></issuing_authority>
      </secondary_id>
    </secondary_ids>
    <source_support>
      <source_name>Memon College of Physical and Rehasbilitaive Medicine</source_name>
    </source_support>
    <ethics_reviews>
      <ethics_review>
        <status>Approved</status>
        <approval_date>2021-10-15</approval_date>
        <contact_name>Ethics committee of Isra University Islamabad</contact_name>
        <contact_address>Gulzar Quaid Islamabad, Rawalpindi Punjab Pakistan</contact_address>
        <contact_phone></contact_phone>
        <contact_email></contact_email>
      </ethics_review>
    </ethics_reviews>
  </trial>
</trials>
