Effect of Dry Needling in Patient with Cervical Radiculopathy in Reducing Pain and Increasing Rom Compared to Interferential Therapy

Abstract

Background: This study was designed to inspect the effectiveness of Dry needling and interferential therapy oncervical radiculopathy patients.Purpose: To compare the effectiveness of dry needling and interferential therapy in patients with cervicalradiculopathy.Materials and methods: It is an experimental study from November 2022 to April 2023. In this study, 30 subjectswere allocated randomly using a randomization method (computer-generated random numbers) according toinclusion and exclusion criteria. Group A was allocated for interferential therapy with neck exercise (n=15) andGroup B was allocated for dry needling with neck exercise (n =15). Outcome measures are NPRS (Numerical painrating scale), Goniometer. Informed consent was obtained from the patient.Result: From the statistical analysis, both groups showed extremely satisfied statistical significance between theirpre- and post-test values (p<0.0001) Also, there is a significant difference in the post-test values of both groups(p<0.0001) which denotes that dry needling therapy with neck exercises values are higher than the IFT with neckexercises values for reducing pain and increasing ROM of cervical joint for cervical radiculopathy.Conclusion: In this study, Dry needling with Neck exercise activities was found to be more beneficial than IFTwith neck exercise in reducing cervical pain and increasing ROM.