Effectiveness of Chiropractic Treatment Applied Together With Ergonomics Education in Factory Workers With Neck Pain

Uskudar University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Work-related Illness; Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: sham; Other: ergonomics; Other: chiropractic

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06689722

Uskudar14

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of chiropractic treatment combined with ergonomic training in factory workers with nonspecific neck pain.

Full description

The study was planned as a randomized controlled study. Workers between the ages of 18-60 who are working in a heat treatment factory in izmir and experiencing non-specific neck pain will be included in the study. The factory workers included in the study will be divided into three by simple random method. The groups will be called chiropractic, placebo and control groups. All participants will be given ergonomic training before the treatment. The chiropractic group will be applied 2 days a week. The placebo group will also be applied sham manipulation 2 days a week. No intervention will be made in the control group. In order to collect data from the participants; Visual Analog Scale, Neck Disability Questionnaire and Bournemouth will be used for pain and pain-related dysfunctions, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire will be used to determine sleep quality. These questionnaires will be repeated before starting the study and at the end of the study.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being between 18-65 years of age,
• Having neck pain for the last 3 months,
• Neck pain being 4 or higher on the Visual Analog Scale

Exclusion criteria

• Having undergone surgery in the last 6 months,
• Not being cooperative,
• Presence of psychological problems,
• Neck pain being of radicular or neurological origin,
• Presence of a systemic or metabolic disease such as cancer, Instability in the neck,
• Vertebro-basilar insufficiency

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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45 participants in 3 patient groups

chiropractic

Experimental group

Description:

chiropractic practices

Treatment:

Other: ergonomics

Other: chiropractic

placebo

Sham Comparator group

Description:

sham manipulation applications

Treatment:

Other: ergonomics

Other: sham

control

Active Comparator group

Description:

those who did not receive any intervention

Treatment:

Other: ergonomics