Effectiveness of Massage Therapy With Active Component and Therapeutic Exercise in Cervical Pain

Alexander Achalandabaso

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain; Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Manual therapy active; Other: Manual therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04856813

CEIM/HU/2020/5/055

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is an interventional study that proves the eficacy of the manual therapy with active manual therapy and combined with exercise in cervical pain.

Full description

The study will be divided in two different groups:

• A control group (group A) : they will receive a treatment with manual therapy and physical exercise.
• An experimental group (group B) : they will receive the previous treatment, but also the pacient's do active muscle active contraction.

The exercise is compound by a home program of several exercises with diferent difficulties.

The contraction will consist on a combination of concentric and isometric work. being the patient's pain threshold the one that will guide us to the choice of the predominance of concentric or isometric contraction . Both groups will be joined by a five-minute work on pain education.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• accept to participate in the study, through informed consent
• subjects with chronic nonspecific neck pain lasting equal to or more than 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• Present neck pain caused by serious pathology such as: inflammatory, congenital, infectious, metabolic and neoplastic diseases.
• Cervical pathology of traumatic origin with less than 6 months of evolution.
• Rheumatic diseases.
• Neck pain with neurological signs such as: radiculopathy and myelopathy.
• Previous surgery of the cervical spine.
• Pregnancy.
• Have received physiotherapeutic treatment in the cervical region during the month prior to the inclusion of the study.
• Have the intention of receiving other physiotherapeutic treatments different from the one proposed during the study period.
• Present serious mental disorders.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

active

Experimental group

Description:

this is the group that does a treatment with active movement, a program of pain education and a program of home exercise.

Treatment:

Other: Manual therapy active

non active

Active Comparator group

Description:

this is the group that does a treatment without active movement, a program of pain education and a program of home exercise.

Treatment:

Other: Manual therapy