Is Patient Choice of Exercise Preference Important in Chronic Neck Pain?

University of Jaén

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: chosen exercise; Other: prescribed exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05226845

Alcalá University

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nonspecific chronic neck pain is the third most frequent problem in Spain. It has an annual presence between 15% and 50% where women are the most affected. This pain influences the psychosocial state of the person. Physical exercise has been shown to be effective in a wide variety of chronic pain conditions, including improving quality of life and emotional problems. Design: Single-blind, controlled, randomized clinical trial. Methods: The study will be approached in the Faculty of Nursing and Physiotherapy of the University of Alcalá. 52 subjects with nonspecific chronic neck pain will be selected and randomly divided into two groups. The first group should perform 5 exercises that have been shown to be effective in the management of neck pain selected by the physiotherapist focused on neck pain. The second group must choose, from a list of exercises that have been shown to be effective in the management of neck pain, 5 exercises. Both groups should record the pain, the number of repetitions and the series performed. The duration of the intervention will be a total of 8 weeks with evaluations pre-intervention, post-intervention and 4 weeks after the end of the intervention. The objective of this study is to evaluate if the exercise chosen by the patient is better than the exercises selected by the physiotherapist for the variables chronic neck pain, strength of the affected muscles, kinesiophobia and adherence to treatment.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chronic neck pain

Exclusion criteria

• Spine surgery, shoulder girdle or cervical area surgery, whether traumatic or not.
• Rheumatic pathology.
• Impaired cognitive function.
• Vascular pathology that prevents exercise.
• Cardiopulmonary pathology that prevents exercise.
• Fear of any of the tests or measurements to be carried out.
• Pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

exercise to improve the neck strength in neck pain chosen by the therapist

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: prescribed exercise

exercise to improve the neck strength in neck pain chosen by the patient

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: chosen exercise