Effectiveness of Massage of the Thoracic Region in Neck Pain

University of Alcala

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Neck and thoracic massage; Other: Neck pain massage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06256016

CEI15/002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Neck pain is a common disorder in industrialized countries. Manual therapy techniques have been commonly used in the treatment of this problem. Actually, there is no research work that has evaluated the work well of treatment with soft tissue techniques (massage) applied to the dorsal paravertebral muscle in the management of neck pain. The goal of this study (clinical trial) is to compare the efficacy of a massage protocol performed on the dorsal region in subjects with mechanical neck pain.

The researchers will compare:

A group that will be treated with a local protocol of cervical manual therapy and therapeutic exercise along with the treatment(massage) of the thoracic region.

Another group that will be treated only with a local protocol of cervical manual therapy and therapeutic exercise.

It is to see if the inclusion of treatment of the thoracic region improves the local intervention in cervical region.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects with neck pain.
• Pain between 4 and 7 points according to a visual anological scale.
• Neck pain lasting more than three months

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects who have suffered a whiplash injury.
• Subjects with neck pain and upper extremity pain.
• Subjects with a diagnosis of herniated disc.
• Subjects with fibromyalgia.
• Subjects with any cancer process.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Neck pain massage

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects in this group will be treated with a neck muscle massage protocol.

Treatment:

Other: Neck pain massage

Neck and thoracic massage

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects in this group will be treated with a massage protocol of the neck muscles and the posterior thoracic region.

Treatment:

Other: Neck and thoracic massage