Effectiveness of Physical Exercise on Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain

Qassim University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Basic body awareness therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05725356

UT-153-31-2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Neck pain is a common medical condition among office workers all over the world. The purpose of this study was to see if physical exercise, such as basic body awareness, neck-specific training exercises, and ergonomic modifications, could help reduce pain, disability, and job stress while also improving quality of life among office workers. Participants will be assigned at random to either an experimental (exercise therapy and ergonomic modification) or a control group (ergonomic modification).

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 25-60 years
• Greater than 3 months of chronic NSNP.
• Office workers and computer users
• The ability to continue working

Exclusion criteria

• A history of severe injury
• Previous physical therapy treatments
• Joint instability
• Frequent migraines
• Spasmodic torticollis
• Inflammatory rheumatic diseases
• Peripheral nerve entrapment
• Severe psychiatric illness
• Pregnancy
• Other conditions that prevent physical loading.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Receiving physical exercise treatment (basic body awareness therapy and neck-specific training exercises) and ergonomic modification

Treatment:

Other: Basic body awareness therapy

Control

Other group

Description:

Receiving ergonomic modification only

Treatment:

Other: Basic body awareness therapy