Pain Related Variables

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain Modulation; Musculoskeletal Pain; Cortical Plasticity; Chronic Neck Pain; Temporal Summation; Conditioned Pain Modulation

Treatments: Other: pain related variables assessment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06007443

CPM-TS-2PD

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic neck pain is a common problem among the general population. Patients with chronic neck pain used health care services twice as much as the population on average, mainly due to intense pain intensity. It is well-known that pain intensity depends on the association of pain processing in several levels of central pain processing.

Identifying the association between conditioned pain modulation, temporal summation, and somatosensory representation, all represent separate central pain processing, will provide an opportunity to develop treatment strategies.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• pain in the back of the neck region
• pain longer than 3 months
• pain intensity at least 3 based on the visual analog scale

Exclusion criteria

• vertebra fracture
• fibromyalgia
• chronic fatigue syndrome
• surgery to the neck or shoulder
• radicular pain
• neurologic deficit due to disk hernia
• spinal stenosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 1 patient group

patients with neck pain

Experimental group

Description:

conditioned pain modulation, temporal summation and two-point discrimination will be evaluated in all included participants. Average pain intensity will be asked

Treatment:

Other: pain related variables assessment