Effects of Sensomotoric Training on Neck/Scapular Pain in People With Visual Disability

Centre for Rehabilitation Research, Örebro

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Neck/Scapular Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Sensomotoric training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01361906

REHSAM/11

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether sensomotoric training can reduce neck/scapular pain in people with visual disability.

Full description

People with prolonged musculoskeletal disorders have impaired quality of life, physical function, work conditions and work ability and consume substantial public resources. An often overlooked fact in this context is the relationship between musculoskeletal disorders and the importance of a normally functioning visual system. People who have a visual impairment in adulthood often experience reduced health and life satisfaction. Many people lose their faith in order to continue with the activities previously carried out as to cope with their life, their work, and in some cases,personal care. Rehabilitative efforts to reduce the negative effects often involve the prescription of various visual aids which, in turn, often leads to unfavourable ergonomic and static postures with further increased risk of musculoskeletal problems. A prevention of such disorders is likely to allow them to continue their work, which is important from both an individual and a society perspective. The overall objective of the project is to evaluate the effects of an intervention program and develop a theoretical model for the relationship between near work, eye disorders and musculoskeletal disorders. The intervention is to be evaluated in a randomized trial on people with impaired vision and pain in the neck and scapular area. An intervention based on development and adaptation of an established physiotherapy practice in order to increase body awareness, body control and movement patterns will be evaluated. The effects of the intervention will be measured by a variety of outcome measures derived from WHO's ICF-model. An innovative solution for establishing proprioception and eye-hand coordination in everyday activities, the Clinical Kinematic Assessment Tool, will be used.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 67 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• visual disability
• age 18 to 67 years old
• pain in neck/scapular area
• living in Örebro county

Exclusion criteria

• deafness
• musculoskeletal disease (such as Multiple sclerosis, etc)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Untreated control

No Intervention group

Description:

Untreated control

Sensomotoric training

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment with Sensomotoric training

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sensomotoric training