The Effect of Adding Auditory Information on Head Movements in People With Non-traumatic Neck Pain

Aalborg University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Healthy; Neck Pain

Treatments: Device: Smartphone playing a sound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06028269

AAU031-1025976a

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study sets out to investigate the potential effect of auditory disturbances on human movement

Full description

Clinicians routinely investigate/test human movement but if/how this is effect by auditory disturbances is unclear. This study sets out to investigate the impact of auditory disturbances on head movements.

Enrollment: 44 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Control group:

Inclusion Criteria (Control):

• Able to speak, read and understand Danish/English

Exclusion Criteria (Control):

• Pain from the neck or shoulder area during the past 6 months
• Experience of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) during the week leading up to the test session
• Former surgery in neck or shoulder
• Current or previous chronic or recurrent pain condition that could affect the results
• Pregnancy
• Drug addiction defined as the use of cannabis, opioids or other drugs
• Previous neurologic, musculoskeletal or mental illnesses that could affect the results
• Regular use of analgesics
• Abnormally disrupted sleep in the last 24 hours preceding the experiment
• Lack of ability to cooperate

Neck pain group:

Inclusion Criteria (Neck Pain):

• Idiopathic neck pain
• Able to speak, read and understand Danish/English
• Reduced/painful active range of motion of the head and/or painful reaction to palpation of the neck at the time of inclusion

Exclusion Criteria (Neck Pain):

• Experience of DOMS during the week leading up to the test session
• Former surgery in neck or shoulder
• Pregnancy
• Drug addiction defined as the use of cannabis, opioids or other drugs
• Previous neurologic, musculoskeletal (other than neck pain) or mental illnesses that could affect the results
• Abnormally disrupted sleep in the 24 hours preceding the experiment
• Lack of ability to cooperate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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44 participants in 3 patient groups

Sound 1

Experimental group

Description:

A sound will be played while moving the head

Treatment:

Device: Smartphone playing a sound

Sound 2

Experimental group

Description:

A sound (different from Sound 1) will be played while moving the head

Treatment:

Device: Smartphone playing a sound

No Sound

No Intervention group

Description:

No sound will be played while moving the head