Cervical Stabilization Exercises in Patients With Spondyloarthritis

Izmir Katip Celebi University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spondyloarthritis

Treatments: Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04483648

SpAJPE

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of cervical stabilization exercises on cervical positioning error in spondyloarthritis patients.

Full description

The position sense and kinesthesia are defined as proprioception. In other words, proprioception allows being aware of positions of the body parts in the space. Muscles, tendons, joint capsules are source of proprioception.

Possible damage to these structures due to inflammation may cause diminished proprioception sense. Decreased proprioception was shown for cervical region in axial spondyloarthritis patients in a recent study.

Different exercise programs may help increasing proprioception. Therefore, the aim of the present study is investigate the effects of cervical stabilization exercises on cervical proprioception accuracy.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being diagnosed as axial spondyloarthritis according to ASAS criteria
• Being able to understand and follow the exercise commands
• Willingness to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Trauma history related to cervical region
• A completed ankylosis in cervical region
• Surgery history related to cervical region
• Any vestibular disorders
• Upper extremity involvement other than axial spondyloarthritis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise Group

Experimental group

Description:

A progressive home-based cervical stabilization exercise program was delivered by sending messages and video instructions via a freeware and cross-platform messaging service (WhatsApp Messenger) in a weekly basis.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients in control group did not receive any exercise intervention.