Search for a location. The purpose of this research is to compare two different approaches for treating patients with achilles tendinopathy: eccentric exercise, stretching and manual therapy VS Electric dry needling, eccentric exercise, stretching and manual therapy. Physical therapists commonly use all of these techniques to treat achilles tendinopathy.
This study is attempting to find out if one treatment strategy is more effective than the other. Patients with achilles tendinopathy will be randomized to receive treatments treatments per week over 6 weeks 10 treatments max of either: 1 Eccentric exercise, stretching, manual therapy and electrical dry needling or 2. Report of at least 3 months of Achilles pain clinically diagnosed as Achilles tendonitis or Achilles tendinopathy. Patient has not had physical therapy, massage therapy, chiropractic treatment or injections for Achilles pain in the last 6 months:.
Report of red flags to manual physical therapy to include: hypertension infection, diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, heart disease, stroke, chronic ischemia, edema, severe vascular disease, malignancy, etc. History of previous Achilles tendon surgery, ankle arthrodesis, hind foot fracture, or leg length discrepancy of more than one half inch.
Two or more positive neurologic signs consistent with nerve root compression, including any two of the following:. Data sourced from clinicaltrials. Search CTV Search for a location. Search for trials. Find clinical trials Close. Status Enrolling. Achilles Tendinopathy. Study type. Funder types. Take notes.
View location. Contact trial. Details and patient eligibility About. Full description. Read more. Sex All. Volunteers No Healthy Volunteers. Inclusion criteria. Exclusion criteria. Trial design Primary purpose Treatment. Allocation Randomized. Interventional model Parallel Assignment. Masking Double Blind. Electrical Dry Needling and conventional PT. Experimental group. Conventional PT. Active Comparator group.
