Comparative Effects of Gong's Mobilization With Gradually Graded Exercise Therapy

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Shoulder Syndrome; Chronic Pain; Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Gradually Graded Exercise Therapy; Other: Gong's Mobilization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04872335

REC/Lhr/20/0104

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project was a Randomized clinical trial conducted to find out the Comparative Effects of Gong's Mobilization with Gradually Graded Exercise Therapy for Chronic Neck Pain among the users of Electronic Gadgets so that we can have best treatment option for patients.

Full description

The study design was a Randomized Clinical Trial. For the study data was collected from sports and spine professionals. Sample size was calculated with the help of Epitool calculator. The study will be completed in 6 months duration. Neck Disability Index (NDI), Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) for pain intensity and Universal Goniometers for measuring (ROMs) and Forward head posture (FHP) were assessed before and 4 weeks after the treatment through the craniovertebral angle (CVA) measured from a digitized, lateral-view photograph of each subject. All the subjects were selected using Non Probability convenient sampling technique. The Subjects were randomly assigned to one of the following two groups: Gong's Mobilization (Group 1) or Gradually Graded Exercise Therapy (Group 2).This study was conducted in accordance with the rules of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written Informed consent were taken from all the subjects before participating in this trial. SPSS 25 was used for data entry and analysis.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:• Subjects with an age range of 15 to 65 years having Chronic neck pain for more than 3 months and subjects having a baseline NDI score of atleast 20% (10 points).

Exclusion Criteria:

• • Cervical stenosis

  • History of traumatic Injury
  • Previous surgery related to cervical spine
  • Hypermobility
  • Cancer
  • Inflammatory rheumatologic diseases
  • Severe psychological disorders
  • Being pregnant and
  • Intervention including exercise or physical therapy in the last 3 months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Gong's Mobilization

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects received gong's mobilization three times in a week for 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Gong's Mobilization

Gradually Graded Exercise Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects received gradually graded exercise therapy three times in a week for 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Gradually Graded Exercise Therapy