Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain (TaiChiNe)

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Neck exercises; Behavioral: Tai Chi

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02222051

13-5672 Tai Chi Neck Pain

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study the efficacy of Tai Chi will be tested in comparison to conventional neck exercises and usual care in a randomized controlled trial. Tai Chi and neck exercises will be lead by a trained exercise therapist and Tai Chi instructor, both groups receive 12 weeks of training, once weekly for 60-90 min in a group setting. Pain, Disability, quality of life, wellbeing, stress perception, psychological distress will be used to determine effects.

Full description

see above

Enrollment: 114 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chronic non specific neck pain (3 months at least)
• 45mm pain intensity on average on the visual analog scale

Exclusion criteria

• specific neck pain due to
• inflammatory diseases
• rheumatic diseases
• neurological diseases
• prolapse or protrusion
• oncological disease
• trauma (whiplash)
• congenital deformity of the spine
• severe comorbidity (somatic, psychiatric)
• pregnancy
• participation in other clinical trials
• regular practice of tai chi, qigong, yoga in the past 6 months
• medication with opioids

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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114 participants in 3 patient groups

Tai Chi

Experimental group

Description:

Simplified 24 Yang Style 12 weeks, 1x/week, 60-90 minutes

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tai Chi

Neck exercise

Active Comparator group

Description:

conventional neck exercises 12 weeks, 1x/week, 60 min stretching and strengthening, neck education

Treatment:

Behavioral: Neck exercises

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care, no specific study intervention this group is offered Tai Chi or neck exercises at the end of the study