Sensorimotor Control in People With and Without Neck Pain

CEU San Pablo University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Movement Disorders; Neck Pain

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: sensorimotor control analysis using inertial sensor technology

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05032911

CEU-023

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a descriptive, observational, longitudinal, prospective study consecutively enrolling patients with non-specific neck pain and age-matched asymptomatic participants.

The investigators will register sensorimotor control variables, including active range of motion, movement speed, acceleration, smoothness of motion, head repositioning accuracy and motion coupling patterns. These variables will be recorded by means of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors during the following tests consecutively performed in two measuring sessions separated by 12 months: (a) kinematics of planar movements, (b) kinematics of the craniocervical flexion movement, (c) kinematics during functional tasks and (d) kinematics of task-oriented neck movements in response to visual targets.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Population aged between 18 and 65 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Visual impairment not corrected by the use of glasses/contact lenses
• Migraine headache
• Complex regional syndrome
• Previous surgeries in the neck and/or head region
• Sensory and/or vestibular alterations, (f) Otogenic or idiopathic vertigo/dizziness
• Presence of tumors in the craniocervical region
• Previous fracture in the head or neck region
• Osseous deformities in the thoracic, cervical or cranial region

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Asymptomatic participants

Description:

Asymptomatic subjects should not present any pain in the cervical region during the last 3 months and no previous treatment for neck pain in order to be included in the study.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: sensorimotor control analysis using inertial sensor technology

Neck pain patients

Description:

Patients with neck pain should have an intensity of pain of at least 3 points out of 10 on a Visual Analog Scale and a neck pain duration of at least 3 months of evolution. Neck pain could be from nonspecific mechanical origin, associated with whiplash or with a previous medical diagnosis of degenerative or inflammatory alterations of the cervical spine, associated or not with headache and pain in the shoulder region or the upper limb.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: sensorimotor control analysis using inertial sensor technology