Relationship Between Musculoskeletal, Sensorimotor and Functional Factors and Nonspecific Chronic Neck Pain

University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Science

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: assessment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02789631

IR.USWR.REC.1394.224

Details and patient eligibility

About

Several factors have been associated with neck pain. Controversy exists regarding the degree of association between some of these factors and neck pain. Information regarding the degree of association of each factor to neck pain is needed for effective prevention and appropriate treatment strategies. The aim of this study is to investigate the association among musculoskeletal, sensorimotor factors and functional disability and occurrence of chronic nonspecific neck pain.

Enrollment: 232 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• for subjects with neck pain: experiencing pain for at least 3 months in the last year, having pain score of 3 or more on visual analogue scale.
• for healthy subjects: no history of neck pain

Exclusion criteria

• history of cervical discopathy
• any surgery on neck
• traumatic neck injury
• any congenital disorders

Trial design

232 participants in 2 patient groups

chronic neck pain

Description:

experiencing neck pain for at least 3 months in the last year

Treatment:

Other: assessment

without neck pain (asymptomatic)

Description:

no history of neck pain

Treatment:

Other: assessment