IRCT20131225015932N14 IRCT 2018-06-01 Shiraz University of Medical Sciences The effect of dry needling of trigger point in patient with knee OA The effect of dry needling of trigger point around knee and hip on pain, function and proprioception in patient with knee OA 2018-07-20 anticipated 24 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/28094 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Single blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Treatment, Randomization description: The patients will be allocated to two parallel groups (control and intervention) via blocked randomization method by randomizer software. Allocation concealment will be performed via SNOSE method. (sequentially numbered , sealed, opaque envelopes), Blinding description: The assessor will be blinded to group allocation in this study. (single blind study). N/A Osteoarthritis. Intervention 1: Intervention group: for one week and three sessions a week, they are treated with a needle in the muscles around the knee (the muscles that have Trp). The main physical characteristic to identify the trigger points is touched by a painful local nail in a rigid bundle within the skeletal muscle that produces and distributes a pain and discomfort with a continuous compression of about 10 to 20 seconds. Intervention 2: Control group: no treatment has been received, and in order to be ethical the research will give the group a useful exercise program at the end of the project. Undecided - It is not yet known if there will be a plan to make this available Justification or reason for indecision in sharing IPD is There is no further information