Effect of MET With and Without MCTE in Mechanical Neck Pain

Riphah International University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Mechanical Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: MCTE along with METs; Other: METs

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06750211

REC/RCR & AHS/24/0115

Details and patient eligibility

About

Work had to be done previously on METs and MCTE techniques, but no study has compared both techniques together to make it more comprehensible. The rationale of this will be to find out the combined effect of motor control therapeutic exercises and muscle energy technique for the treatment of pain, range of motion and disability associated with mechanical neck pain. This study will be effective for the clinicians to treat patients of mechanical neck pain.

Full description

Therapeutic exercises and manual therapy were shown to be useful in managing pain and lowering disability in patients with non-specific chronic neck pain (NCNP). However, little studies investigated the benefits of muscle energy technique and motor control therapeutics exercise on mechanical neck pain (MNP). The current research fulfill this gap by comparing the short and long term benefits of muscle energy technique with and without motor control therapeutic exercises (MCTE) with the grail of determining best approach for lowering pain and disability in mechanical neck pain patients.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • Subjects were between 20 and 50 years old.

  • Pain in cervical or neck region with no radiating pain in one or both upper limbs.
  • Pain minimum of 3 months.
  • Neck disability index (NDI) score of should be at least 10%.
  • Forward head posture.

Exclusion criteria

• • Neck pain associated with vertigo.

  • Irradiated neck pain.
  • Vertebral fracture.
  • Osteoporosis.
  • Previous neck injury.
  • Red flags (night pain, severe muscle loss, loss of involuntary control.
  • Subjects with difficulty in communication or understanding.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

METs

Active Comparator group

Description:

Hot pack along with Neck isometrics and muscle energy technique protocol

Treatment:

Other: METs

MCTE along with METs

Experimental group

Description:

MCTE included cranio-cervical flexion, cranio-cervical extension, co-contraction of flexion and extension and synergistic exercise of neck flexor along with hot pack, neck isometrics and muscle energy technique protocol

Treatment:

Other: MCTE along with METs