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The problem
Intervention: Dry needling combined with traditional physical therapy
Who it was tested with: 48 children aged 6-12 years with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Both groups significantly improved across all outcomes (p < 0.05). The DN group showed greater improvements in MAS (mean change: -0.5 vs. -0.2), GMFM-88 (mean change: +10.2 s vs. +5.9 s), and TUG (mean change: -4.2 s vs. -1.4 s). Spasticity, gross motor, and functional mobility outcomes favored the DN group (p = 0.02, p = 0.02, and p = 0.002)." This randomized controlled trial with a comparison group and prespecified outcome measures provides experimental-level evidence that dry needling as an adjunctive treatment produces measurable improvements in spasticity and motor function beyond traditional therapy alone.
Single-blind design (not double-blind); country of study not specified; small sample size of 48 children; no long-term follow-up data beyond 12 weeks; population limited to ambulatory children with mild-to-moderate spastic diplegia
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