Effect of Ultrasound-Guided Dry Needling Targeting Rectus Capitus Posterior Major on Individuals With Headaches
- NCT ID
- NCT07309874
- Registry status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Sponsor
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- Conditions
- Headache Disorders, Primary, Headache, Cervicogenic
Overview
ClinicalTrials.gov lists this study as Recruiting.
Enrollment: 50 participants (Estimated).
What is being studied
- Intervention: Complementary Therapies
- Other: Dry needling
- Intervention: Dry Needling
- Intervention: Physical Therapy Modalities
- Intervention: Therapeutics
Who may be eligible
- Ages
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- No
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the following eligibility criteria.
Inclusion Criteria:
* Reports of a headache within the last 6 months (no minimum or maximum frequency or duration)
* Current reports of headache
* Tenderness to palpation of suboccipital muscles with Numeric Pain Rating Scale score ≥ 2/10
* No history of cervical spine surgery or neurological disorders
Exclusion Criteria:
* History of cervical spine trauma or surgery
* Diagnosed bleeding disorder
* Currently using anticoagulant medications
* Currently using anti-platelet medications
* Diagnosed systemic joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis
* Active infection
* Diabetes
* Cancer
* Fibromyalgia
* Cervical radiculopathy
* Inability to tolerate prone positioning for the duration of the procedure.
Study locations
1 study location is listed.
Recruiting site status is explicitly provided for 1 location; 1 is listed as Recruiting.
Countries: United States
- Texas, United States: 1
Sample of listed locations
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center — Lubbock, Texas, 79430-0001, United States — Recruiting
Study details
- Start date
- March 1, 2026
- Primary completion date
- December 1, 2026
- Completion date
- March 1, 2027
- First posted
- December 30, 2025
- Collaborators
- Texas Woman's University
Source and update information
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- NCT ID
- NCT07309874
- Registry last updated
- September 9, 2026
- QualifiedStudies registry data refreshed
- October 5, 2026
- QualifiedStudies record fetched
- October 5, 2026
View NCT07309874 on ClinicalTrials.gov
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