Scapular Stabilization Exercise on Neck Pain

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: scapular exercise on neck pain; Other: classical approach for neck pain

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02695108

GO 14/498

Details and patient eligibility

About

Neck pain is a very common problem in the population. Most of the patients suffer from neck pain for long time and the problem becomes chronic. The investigators studied the effects of scapular stabilization exercise on mechanical neck pain.

Full description

Neck is one of the most common musculoskeletal problem in the world. Yet the problem still haven't been understood and solved completely. Its incidence is also becoming higher and most people who have neck pain suffer from it for long time. Several problems have been related to neck pain. Hence, the investigators designed a study to see the effects of scapular stabilization exercise on neck pain.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having neck pain at least 6 months
• having score of at least 10 points from Neck Disability Index
• having type-1, type-2 or type-3 scapula from Kibler's four types rating system
• no previous shoulder or neck surgery
• no accompanying shoulder problem

Exclusion criteria

• no complying to the rehabilitation
• if patient wants to finished and don't want to complete study, they were excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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26 participants in 2 patient groups

classical approach for neck pain

Experimental group

Description:

patients in this arm received classical approaches for neck pain. Cervical manual therapy was performed on patients in this arm and they were also instructed to to perform cervical endurance, strength and stretching exercises. Rehabilitation period was lasted for 6 weeks. Pain, quality of life and scapular kinematics were assessed before and after rehabilitation program.

Treatment:

Other: classical approach for neck pain

scapular exercise on neck pain

Experimental group

Description:

patients in this arm received cervical manual therapy and cervical exercises too. Apart from cervical manual therapy and cervical exercises,patients also performed scapular stabilization exercise targeting trapezius, serratus anterior and rhomboid muscles. Rehabilitation period was lasted for 6 weeks. The same assessment parameters was conducted on this arm too.

Treatment:

Other: scapular exercise on neck pain