Active Intervention for Patients With Neck Pain

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Active exercising

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03987516

DF0081UG

Details and patient eligibility

About

Neck pain is a complex biopsychosocial disorder often precipitated or aggravated by neck movements or sustained neck postures. More than 80 % of individuals experience neck pain and neck associated disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 4-week active exercising program in patients with chronic neck pain.

Full description

While neck pain can be severely disabling and costly, treatment options have shown moderate evidence of effectiveness. The optimal physiotherapy intervention is currently unclear. Consequently, more research in this area combining different techniques in patients with a specific clinical profile is needed. It has been previously shown that participants prefer self-care measures for the management of neck pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 4-week active exercising program in patients with chronic neck pain.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To suffer from chronic neck pain (at least 3 months' duration)
• Neck pain of at least 3 on a visual analogue scale.
• Participants' symptoms should be at least partly related to increased nerve mechanosensitivity in the neck and upper limb confirmed by the reproduction of participants' symptoms by median nerve upper-limb neurodynamic test.

Exclusion criteria

• Whiplash related neck pain.
• Previous cervical surgical intervention.
• Cognitive impairments which prevent them to follow instructions.
• Visual or acoustic limitations.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Active intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be included in an active intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Active exercising

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients in the control group will not receive any intervention