Effectiveness of Various Electrotherapy Methods in Treating People With Cervical Spine Pain Syndrome.

University of Rzeszow

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cervical Spine Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Kinesiotherapy combined with placebo electrotherapy; Other: Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Trabert ultrastimulation method); Other: Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Convenctional TENS method).; Other: Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Pseudo-acupuncture TENS method).

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04890743

Urzeszow Club of Physical

Details and patient eligibility

About

Volunteers will take part in the study; Students of the university in the area of Rzeszow reporting chronic spinal ailments participation in remote learning. Applicant participants will be randomised into 3 groups of subjected to various electrotherapy procedures.

Full description

Study participants will be tested:

1. Before a series of electrotherapy treatments.

2. 7 to 10 days after the end of electrotherapy.

3. 3 months after the end of electrotherapy. The study will use

   1. a self-authored survey taking into account: basic personal data (age, gender, value and BMI, lifestyle and degree of load on the cervical spine), information on the nature, intensity and frequency of the presence of pain in the spine cervical system, taking into account possible adverse reactions
   2. a questionnaire for subcjective assessment of the state of the spine Neck Disability Index,
   3. measuring the tone of the vertebral muscles in the cervical (myotonometer),
   4. a visual analog scale used to assess the severity of symptoms (Visual Analog Scale -VAS) Intervention;
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   1. irradiation of the neck area with a sollux lamp with a blue filter

   2. individual exercises conducted according to the prepared author's mobility improvement program

   3. electrotherapy treatments:

      • Trabert currents
      • TENS currents (conventional)
      • TENS currents (pseudo-acupuncture)

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• informed written consent of the patient to participate in the study
• no contraindications to electrotherapy in the area of the cervical spine;

Exclusion criteria

• poor tolerance of electrotherapy treatments;
• breaks between consecutive treatments longer than 3 days;
• failure to complete a series of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy treatments;
• use of any stimulants during the observation period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Conventional TENS group

Experimental group

Description:

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Conventional TENS method).

Treatment:

Other: Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Convenctional TENS method).

Pseudo-acupuncture TENS group

Experimental group

Description:

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Pseudo-acupuncture TENS method).

Treatment:

Other: Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Pseudo-acupuncture TENS method).

Trabert ultrastimulation group

Experimental group

Description:

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Trabert ultrastimulation method).

Treatment:

Other: Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Trabert ultrastimulation method)

Placebo group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and placebo electrotherapy.

Treatment:

Other: Kinesiotherapy combined with placebo electrotherapy