Prevention of Neck Pain in Adults With a Back School-Based Intervention.

University of Vigo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Exercise Therapy; Primary Prevention; Neck Pain; Health Education

Treatments: Behavioral: Back School

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05260645

5148

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study consists of a theoretical and practical intervention based on the Back School. This intervention will be carried out over 8 weeks with a frequency of two sessions per week, for a total of 16 sessions of 45 minutes duration. Of all the sessions, 14 had a practical focus (strength and stretching exercises) and the other two had a theoretical focus (self-management techniques and pain neuroscience education).

The clinical practice guidelines highlight the importance of neck pain prevention through exercise an education. There are previous studies of the effects of theoretical and practical programmes based on back school on the lumbar region but not on the cervical region.Therefore, the main aim of this innovative study is to to investigate the effects of a Back School based intervention on the prevention of neck pain and as secondary objectives to investigate the effects on neck flexor and extensor strength as well as scapular stability. The hypothesis is that this BS-based intervention would have positive effects on neck pain prevention, neck strength and scapular stability.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages 18 - 65 years old.
• Not have had neck pain in the last 6 months.

Exclusion criteria

• Previous neck or shoulder surgery, cervical radiculopathy/myelopathy, history of the whiplash injury.
• Taking any medication or having any musculoskeletal, rheumatic, metabolic, cardiological, cognitive disorder or neurological disorder.
• Missing more than two Back School sessions.
• Not being able to attend the measurement sessions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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57 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention based on the Back School was carried out for 8 weeks with a frequency of two sessions per week, with a total of 16 sessions lasting 45 min.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Back School

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

I declare that I will not change my lifestyle during the study process.