High Tone Power Therapy on Neck Pain and Proprioception in Cervical Radiculopathy

October 6 University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cervical Radiculopathy

Treatments: Device: High Tone Power Therapy; Other: selected exercise program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06695312

P.T.REC/012/0053400

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the Effect of High Tone Power Therapy on Neck Pain and Proprioception in Cervical Radiculopathy Patients.

Full description

Forty two patients with Cervical Radiculopathy will participate in this study. The patients will randomly be divided into two equal groups; the control group which received the selected exercise program and the study group received the same exercise training program in addition to High Tone Power Therapy, three times per week for four weeks. The evaluation methods are cervical joint position error test, neck disability index, Cervical range of motion (CROM) and visual analogue scale

Enrollment: 42 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Their ages range from 35 to 50 years.
• Both sex
• With mild to moderate cervical disability according to the neck disability index
• Unilateral cervical radiculopathy for more than 6 months.
• Cervical radiculopathy due to disc prolapse (C5-C6) (C6-C7) mild to moderate or disc prolapse according to magnetic resonance image (MRI).
• Normal body mass index (18.5 - 24.99Kg/m2).

Exclusion criteria

• Any other musculoskeletal disorders of the spine or upper extremity
• Patients with any other Neurological deficits, psychiatric disease Cervical myelopathy, Cognitive problems, vertebral fractures and previous history of spine or cervical surgery.
• Neck pain with vertigo or with bilateral upper limbs referred pain.
• Clinical instability, recent trauma and vertebrobasilar insufficiency.
• Structural abnormalities of the spine, osteoporosis, and spasmodic torticollis.
• Inflammatory or other specific disorders of spina such as ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

study group

Other group

Description:

the study group received the selected exercise program in addition to High Tone Power Therapy

Treatment:

Other: selected exercise program

Device: High Tone Power Therapy

control group

Other group

Description:

therapeutic ultrasound, Static neck exercise,

Treatment:

Other: selected exercise program