NCT03743818 is a NA clinical trial of dry needling in Osteoarthritis, sponsored by Universidad Católica de Ávila.

Who is sponsoring NCT03743818?

NCT03743818 is sponsored by Universidad Católica de Ávila.

What drugs are being tested in NCT03743818?

Interventions in NCT03743818: dry needling, ultrasound, hyauluronic acid.

What condition does NCT03743818 study?

NCT03743818 studies Osteoarthritis.

Is NCT03743818 still recruiting?

NCT03743818 is currently completed. Last updated 28 April 2021.

Last reviewed 2021-04-28 · How we verify

NCT03743818

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Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFICACY OF HYALURONIC ACID, DRY NEEDLING AND COMBINED TREATMENT IN PATELLAR OSTEOARTHRITIS

Completed NA Last updated 28 April 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing dry needling in Osteoarthritis in 60 participants. Completed in 20 April 2021.

Timeline

8 July 2020

Primary endpoint
15 December 2020

20 April 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Universidad Católica de Ávila
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	60
Start date	8 July 2020
Primary completion	15 December 2020
Estimated completion	20 April 2021
Sites	1 location across Spain

Drugs / interventions tested

dry needling
ultrasound
hyauluronic acid

Conditions studied

Osteoarthritis — all drugs for Osteoarthritis →

Sponsor

Universidad Católica de Ávila

Who can join

Adults 18 to 55, any sex, with Osteoarthritis. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Randomized clinical trial in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Sixty patients will be evaluated, divided in three groups (20 in each). One group A will be treated by dry needling in the vast internal, other group B will be treated with a standardized treatment protocol (electrotherapy and manual therapy), and group C will be treated with hialuronic acid. The investigators want to observe which technique is the most effective in osteoarthritis.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

Comparative Study of the Efficacy of Hyaluronic Acid, Dry Needling and Combined Treatment in Patellar Osteoarthritis-Single-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial.
Saornil JV, Sánchez Milá Z, Campón Chekroun AM, Baraja Vegas L, et al · · 2022 · cited 5× · PMID 36078628 · DOI 10.3390/ijerph191710912

Verify or expand the search:

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Trials by the same sponsor.

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Verify against primary sources

ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
WHO ICTRP — international registry index
EU Clinical Trials Register
Sponsor press releases (Google)

Data sources for this page

Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03743818 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Universidad Católica de Ávila
Last refreshed: 28 April 2021

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