Effectiveness of Proprioceptive Exercise in Neck Pain (PropNeckPain)

University of Valencia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Mobility exercises; Other: Proprioception exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03218644

ID0017

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: Neck pain is among the most common and costly for industrialized societies. It is difficult to know the exact structure causing the pain so most are considered as non-specific neck pain. There is a correlation between the alteration of craneocervical proprioception and neck pain. The evidence for treatment with proprioceptive exercises is very limited.

Objective: To know the efficacy of a proprioceptive exercise program for neck pain and to compare its effects with a cervical mobility program.

Materials and Methods: Subjects between 18-65 years old with non-traumatic neck pain are included. They will be randomized into two groups of exercises: proprioception or mobility, which will be developed over a period of two weeks, every day, with a total of 10 sessions per patient.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Neck pain (NAD I-II) of recent onset (0-3 months)

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive difficulties
• Lack of commitment to attend sessions
• Subjects with pacemakers or defibrillators
• Being receiving another physiotherapeutic treatment
• Other pathologies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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47 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Follow the usual treatment and perform the exercises of cervical mobility before a mirror.

Treatment:

Other: Mobility exercises

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The same procedure is followed by substituting proprioceptive exercises for craniocervical sensorimotor control with a laser instrument located on the patient's head and a target.

Treatment:

Other: Proprioception exercises