Effects of Cervical Spine Manipulation in Patients With Mechanical Neck Pain

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: conventional therapy; Other: cervical manipulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05649397

REC- 01395 Hafsa Bint Bilal

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mechanical neck pain is known as one of the most common disorders in musculoskeletal system. In elderly population, prevalence of neck pain ranges up to 38% while point prevalence and lifetime prevalence ranges from 6% to 22% and 14.2% to 71% respectively . Neck pain is defined by the international association for the study of pain as: "Pain perceived as arising from anywhere within the region bounded superiorly by superior nuchal line, inferior by transverse line through the tip of first thoracic spinous process, and laterally by sagittal plane tangential to the lateral border of neck" . There are variable causes of neck pain like trauma, infections, inflammatory conditions, musculoskeletal conditions, rheumatic diseases, and congenital diseases . There are varying degrees of disability and activity limitation caused by neck pain, like work productivity reduction and decrease quality of life . People who have a sedentary lifestyle, poor occupational postures, students with poor posture, people involved in occupation like computer programming, clerical job workers and desk job works are more likely to suffer from mechanical neck pain . Most common cause of mechanical neck pain is muscle tightness, Upper trapezius and levator scapulae are the most involved muscles

Full description

Neck pain can over time negatively affect the central processing of any afferent input received because it can create a disturbance in the proprioceptive input to the Central Nervous System. Vuillerme stated that cervical muscle proprioceptors are stimulated by painful electrical stimuli. Therefore, joint proprioception can be affected in patients with mechanical neck pain .

The conservative management of mechanical neck pain includes many treatment options like electrotherapy which includes moist heat, Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation therapy and different manual therapy options like cervical and thoracic mobilization and manipulation, Natural Apophyseal Glides and Sustained Natural Apophyseal Glides, Cyriax technique, manual pressure release, ischemic compression and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation. Postural reeducation and strength training of weak muscle group has beneficial effects. Joint mobilization and manipulation are widely used as a treatment for mechanical neck pain, as cervical mobilizations which are low velocity passive oscillatory movements are used by 90% of physiotherapist and chiropractors to treat people with neck pain.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with non-radiating neck pain of moderate intensity scoring 4-8 on the numeric pain rating scale (NPRS)
• Have a Neck Disability Index (NDI) score of 20% or greater (10 points or greater on a 0-to-50 scale)
• Patients who have cervical joint position error greater than 7.1 cm or 4.5 degrees

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a positive history of trauma, fracture or surgery of the cervical spine .
• anatomical cervical spine abnormality
• presented with any neurological signs
• history of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
• Neck pain with radiation to the arm and upper extremity .
• Diagnosed cases of torticollis, and scoliosis
• History of osteoporosis, Any cardiac disorder
• had participated in a neck exercise program in the past 6 months .

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

cervical manipulation

Experimental group

Description:

in the cervical manipulation, provide a high velocity, low-amplitude manipulation to each subject's cervical spine.

Treatment:

Other: cervical manipulation

conventional therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

* 15 mins moist hot pack * Neck Isometric exercise * hold for 5-8 seconds and repeat 10 times * Cervical range of motion * 10 repetitions of movement in rotation within pain free range

Treatment:

Other: conventional therapy