Laterality Discrimination in Patients With Non-specific Chronic Neck Pain

Centro Universitario La Salle

Status

Completed

Conditions

Neck Pain

Treatments

Behavioral: Neck Laterality

Behavioral: Foot Laterality

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03861312

CSEULS-PI-155/2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic neck pain is one of the most common causes of pain, affecting 15% of the adult population, and the fourth leading cause of disability. The recognition of laterality is the ability to recognize a part of the body that belongs to the left or right which is used as a tool to create a normal process of motor planning.

Full description

The most consistent data come from the investigation of the primary motor cortex, in which the cortical representations of the altered body part are affected when there is chronic pain. Occasionally, the primary motor cortex is smaller on the affected side than on the contralateral side.

Recognition of the body schema is altered in the presence of painful disorders. The most common way of assessing the body schema is by motor imagery through the laterality discrimination of the left and right.

Enrollment

48 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The inclusion criteria were as follows: a) men and women aged between 18- and 65-years b) medical diagnosis of Non-Specific Chronic Neck Pain with more than 6 months of evolution of neck pain.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria included the following: a) patients with rheumatic diseases, cervical hernia, cervical whiplash syndrome, neck surgeries or history of arthrodesis, b) systemic diseases, c) vision, hearing or vestibular problems, d) Severe trauma or traffic accident which has had an impact on the cervical area.