Effect Of Pressure Biofeedback on Deep Cervical Muscle Training Among University Teachers.

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Conventional exercises for deep cervical muscle training; Device: Pressure biofeedback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05261854

REC-FSD-00246

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of pressure biofeedback on deep cervical muscle in university teachers suffering from neck pain, Functional Disability and muscle endurance.

Full description

The purpose of this study will be to determine whether training of deep cervical flexor muscles with pressure biofeedback has any significant advantage over conventional training for pain and disability experienced by university teachers with neck pain. This study will be a randomized control trial with double blinded protocol. Patient will be randomly allocated in two groups. the experimental group received deep cervical flexor muscles training with pressure biofeedback and conventional exercises. The control group received deep cervical flexor muscles training with only conventional exercises.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Both gender
• age between 24 to 45 years
• At least 4 years of teaching experience and average 8 hours of working per day
• Chronic Neck pain score of more than 5 on numeric pain rating scale
• Mild to moderate disability Score on neck disability index

Exclusion criteria

• Participants with any ongoing treatment for neck pain
• History of cervical spine surgery or reported any neurological signs.
• History of any congenital or acquired postural deformity, spinal cord compression, tumour, instability, fracture, inflammatory disease or infection.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Deep cervical muscle training using pressure biofeedback and conventional Exercises

Experimental group

Description:

The duration of preesure biofeedback includes 3 sets in a session with 10 repetitions each with 2 minutes of rest between sets and 5 days a week for 6 weeks. Conventional exercises like Stretching and strengthening of neck flexor muscles will include 10 repetitions, each held for 10s with rest of 2 minutes between sets. The session will be conducted for 6 weeks, 5 days a week.

Treatment:

Device: Pressure biofeedback

conventional exercises for Neck pain

Experimental group

Description:

Only conventional exercises like stretching and strengthening of neck flexor muscles will be given.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional exercises for deep cervical muscle training