Effect of trigger point dry needling technique in treatment of low back pain among amateur golfers

Abstract

In recent times, people are moving from traditionally popular sports of cricket to the new arena like golf. In India, Golf is growing well as a sport. It has been found that wrong technique can cause overload of core muscle and leads to Low Back Pain among Amateur Golfers. The Trigger Points in your spinal muscles may have been activated due to muscle overload, but Trigger Point Dry Needling can help. In order to achieve relief by inducing a local twitch response in a specific muscle, this technique include penetration of a filiform needle in the skin and muscle at the trigger location, making it invasive. The prevalence of Low Back Pain among Indian Amateur golfers has not been adequately examined and there is a critical need for effective injury treatment to maintain participation in the sport. It is the goal of this study to investigate the prevalence of Low Back Pain (LBP) in recreational golfers and the beneficial benefits of Trigger Point Dry Needling on LBP symptoms including Pain, Spinal Range of Motion, Dynamic Stability and Spinal Lordosis. The Golf Course of Delhi NCR, were identified and permission were taken for the study. Sixty people who met the inclusion criteria for the study, low back pain with a diagnosis of pain of myofascial origin, were selected, asked to sign a consent form, and then randomly allocated to one of two groups. Conventional physiotherapy, including moist packs and trigger point dry needling, was used to treat the Experimental group over the course of four sessions on alternating days. The Control group received conventional physiotherapy (Moist packs and Sham needling) and was reevaluated after 4 weeks. When comparing the Experimental/Interventional/Dry Needling group to the Control group, a p value 0.05 indicated that the Experimental Group had better results in reducing Pain, Dynamic Stability, range of motion and Disability. Furthermore, in both the short-term and long-term, the Functional Reach Test scores of the Multi Directional Reach Test (i.e., forward, backward, left and