Dry needling effect on the functional capacity improvement in patients with low back pain

Backaches constitutes one of the most common complaints in the adult population, impairing about 60% to 80% of the people at some moment in their lives. Various factors intervene in its occurrence, being able to have specific causes or not. In the conservative treatment Dry Needling has been gaining space as a therapeutic alternative. The goal of the study was to measure the effect of Dry Needling on the pain and functionality of people with low back pain. Participated in this study 20 individuals of both sexes, aged between 18 and 56 years old divided in two groups: Experimental Group and Control Group. Both groups received ten sessions of conventional physiotherapy, but to the Experimental Group were added four sessions of Dry Needling. The Visual Analog Scale was used to measure lumbar pain and the Rolland-Morris Questionnaire was used to evaluate the functionality. The results demonstrated that both treatments presented positive effects regarding pain and functionality, but it was identified that in the Experimental Group the improvement of pain levels was statistically more meaningful. We conclude that the addition of Dry Needling had positive effects on the pain and functionality of people with low back pain, besides considerably increasing the effect of the standard intervention in these individuals.