Additional Benefits of Virtual Reality Therapy for Individuals With Neck Pain

Kirsehir Ahi Evran Universitesi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rehabilitation; Neck Pain; Virtual Reality

Treatments: Other: rehabilitation program; Other: virtual reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06235515

AEÜ-NK-SG

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to investigate the effect of adding virtual reality therapy to conventional treatment in patients with chronic neck pain on pain, neck disability index, kinesiophobia, insomnia severity questionnaire, hospital anxiety depression scale, cervical range of motion and pressure pain threshold.

Full description

Neck pain is a disease that affects individuals and society worldwide. Between 50% and 85% of the general population experiences neck pain at some point in their lives, and every person who experiences neck pain is likely to experience pain again after 1-5 years. Neck pain is considered chronic if it lasts more than 3 months. Passive and active physical therapy approaches play a very important role in the treatment of neck pain. With the rapid development of technology, new developments such as virtual reality have begun to be used in the treatment of chronic neck pain.

Virtual reality (VR) is a term describing innovative, real-time, computer-based technologies that play an increasing role for many patient groups in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Virtual reality has been shown to be effective in reducing pain and discomfort in patients with different types of chronic pain. Motivation and interaction are the main practical benefits of virtual reality training, especially in video game-based therapy approaches, unlike traditional rehabilitation. Patients play the therapeutic game over and over again to achieve a better score without getting bored. Feedback, an important component of motor learning, is a prominent feature in virtual environments.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients aged 18-65 who signed the informed consent form
• Those with existing neck pain
• Those whose neck pain continues for at least 12 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• Previous cervical surgery
• Having received FTR from the cervical region in the last 6 months
• Having had a spinal fracture
• History of malignancy
• Those with pacemakers
• Those with rheumatological, vestibular and neurological diseases
• Pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

group I

Experimental group

Description:

conventional treatment As conventional treatment, patients will receive 20 minutes of hotpack and 20 minutes of TENS, 5 sessions a week for a total of 15 sessions for 3 weeks. Additionally, patients will be given cervical isometric exercises as a home exercise program.

Treatment:

Other: rehabilitation program

group II

Experimental group

Description:

conventional treatment and virtual reality As conventional treatment, patients will receive 20 minutes of hotpack and 20 minutes of TENS, 5 sessions a week for a total of 15 sessions for 3 weeks. Additionally, patients will be given cervical isometric exercises as a home exercise program. In addition to conventional treatment, virtual reality treatment will allow patients to play games in which they can perform neck movements in all directions for 30 minutes a day, 5 sessions a week for 3 weeks..

Treatment:

Other: virtual reality

Other: rehabilitation program