Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery on Cervical Position Sense and Balance in Mechanical Neck Pain

October 6 University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mechanical Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Training; Other: selected exercise program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06695299

P.T.REC/012/005399

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the Effect of Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Training on Cervical Position Sense and Balance in Mechanical Neck Pain

Full description

Thirty patients with Mechanical Neck Pain 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 Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Training, three times per week for four weeks. The evaluation methods are cervical joint position error test, neck disability index, multidirectional reach test and visual analogue scale

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• thirty patients with mechanical neck pain,
• Age will range as (35:50) years old
• body mass index (18:29)

Exclusion criteria

• difficulty to communicate or to understand program instructions
• any other neurological deficits or orthopaedic abnormalities,
• secondary musculoskeletal complication
• Cervical disc prolapses
• Any other cervical problem
• Spinal stenosis
• Previous spinal surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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44 participants in 2 patient groups

study group

Experimental group

Description:

the study group received the selected exercise program in addition to Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Training

Treatment:

Other: selected exercise program

Other: Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Training

control group

Experimental group

Description:

the control group which received the selected exercise program

Treatment:

Other: selected exercise program