Effect of Cervical Collar in Cervical Radicular Pain.

Ullevaal University Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Cervical Radicular Pain

Treatments: Device: Soft or stiff cervical collar(device), neck school(behavior)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00395798

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Objectives:The purpose of this study is to determine if use of nech collar (stiff or soft)will improve the possibility to obtain painrelief in patients with cervical radicular pain. We will compare short term (six weeks and three months) and long term ( one year) effect of six weeks use of neck collar (stiff or soft)together with "neck school information" with "neck school information" alone.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• cervical radicular pain caused by herniated disc og spondolytic spurs
• written consent from patient

Exclusion criteria

• previous necksurgery
• whiplash or other necktrauma
• serious diseases somatic or psychiatric
• patients not able to speak and read Norwegian well
• insufficient correlation between clinical and radiological findings

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)