Effectiveness of A Telehealth Postural Awareness Program Combined With Exercise In People With Neck Pain

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: A postural awareness program with exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05509491

2022-191

Details and patient eligibility

About

People with neck pain often experience pain, neck disability, and poor quality of life. Postural-based awareness programs are evidence-based interventions for postural problems and neck pain disorders. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a telehealth physiotherapist-delivered postural awareness program combined with exercise in people with neck pain. Pain, neck disability, leisure time management, and exercise stage of change were evaluated.

Full description

Pain with visual analog scale, neck disability with Neck Disability Index, Leisure time management with Leisure Time Management Scale, and exercise stage of change with exercise Stage of change Scale were determined. The authors aim to find out if there are any changes before and after the program on the pain, neck disability, and evaluation subscale of the leisure time management scale, and exercise stage of change of participants.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being aged 18 years or over,
• volunteering to take part in the study,
• being a student of online education,
• without a history of any neurological or orthopedic problem,
• with resting neck pain (as measured by the VAS) lasting ≤30 days
• that is aggravated by movement without extending distal to the shoulders.

Exclusion criteria

• rheumatological diseases, malignity or structural deformities,
• previous surgical intervention related to the neck region,
• severe pain (more than 7 in 0 to 10 VAS)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

Postural Awareness Program with Exercises in people with neck pain

Experimental group

Description:

Postural education, bad posture, good posture, awareness, their effects in daily life

Treatment:

Behavioral: A postural awareness program with exercises