Effectiveness of a Physical Recovery Program for Head and Neck Cancer Patients (3C-CUIDATE)

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dysfunction; Head and Neck Cancer; Pain

Treatments: Other: Manual therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04145180

0045-N-16

Details and patient eligibility

About

People receiving a head and neck cancer treatment often do not find an adequate therapeutic response for the side effects derived from this treatment. The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a physical recovery program based on manual therapy over these problems.

Previous studies have shown the effectiveness of this type of programs on patients who have had cancer in other locations with clinically relevant results. There is a shortage of proposals for this subgroup of patients that require special attention. This project intends to carry out an experimental randomized controlled study with 84 patients treated of head and neck cancer who will be assigned randomly to the study groups: a) manual therapy program or, b) control group. The assessment refers to a baseline form (at the beginning of the study), at 6 weeks and at 6 months of patient follow-up.

Full description

Manual therapy program consists of 3 sessions a week during 6 weeks, with a total of 18 appointments. Measurements are done before starting, after the last intervention and 6 months after finishing the treatment.

Enrollment: 55 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To have ended their treatment in the previous 6-24 months
• To have no metastasis or active cancer
• To have cervical and/or temporomandibular joint pain >3 in a Visual Analogue Scale

Exclusion criteria

• Mental or physical illness preventing subjects from participating in the study
• Previous chronic pain conditions
• Previous cervical or temporomandibular joint pain
• Previous dysphagia disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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55 participants in 2 patient groups

Manual Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Manual Therapy-based intervention

Treatment:

Other: Manual therapy

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

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