Qigong and Exercise for Neck Pain in Adults (QENA)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Neck Pain

Treatments

Procedure: exercise therapy

Procedure: Qigong

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00615732

QENA-08

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of qigong for the treatment of chronic neck pain compared to exercise therapy and waiting list group.

Enrollment

123 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 60 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

clinical diagnosis of chronic neck pain since at least 6 months and complaints for a maximum duration of 5 years
neck pain more prominent than other pain in the spine
average pain intensity of the last 7 days more or equal to 40 mm measured by a visual analogue scale (VAS 0 - 100 mm)
normal mobility of the cervical spine
intellectual and physical ability to participate in the study
informed consent

Exclusion criteria

cervical pain related to malignancy
cervical pain due to an accident
inflammatory joint disorders
previous spine surgery
protrusion/prolapse of a spinal disk, spondylolisthesis, with radicular symptomatology
actually doing or planning to do other regular physical exercise during the study with possible positive effects on neck pain - such as swimming, yoga, pilates, tai chi, etc.
use of pain drugs for other diseases (> 1x/week)
pregnancy
severe chronic or acute disease interfering with therapy attendance
alcohol or substance abuse
participation in another clinical trial in the last 6 months before study entry