The Effect of Auditory and Motor Cognitive Distractions on the Neural Provocation Test in Subjects With Neck Pain

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Neural stress provocation with auditory and motor cognitive distraction.; Behavioral: Providing neural stress with a motor distraction; Behavioral: Neural stress provocation with cognitive auditory distraction; Behavioral: median nerve mobilization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04545645

uammadrid30

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of this research is to evaluate the influence of different distraction stimuli on neural mechano-sensitivity tests.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men and women aged between 18 and 65 years
• Medical diagnosis of non specific chronic neck pain with more than 6 months of evolution of neck pain

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with rheumatic diseases, cervical hernia, cervical whiplash syndrome, neck surgeries o a history of arthrodesis
• Systemic diseases
• Vision, hearing or vestibular problems
• Severe trauma or a traffic accident that had an impact on the cervical area.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 4 patient groups

Neural Stress Provoked by the Median Nerve

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: median nerve mobilization

Neural stress provocation with cognitive auditory distraction

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Neural stress provocation with cognitive auditory distraction

Providing neural stress with a motor distraction

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Providing neural stress with a motor distraction

Neural stress provocation with both distractions

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Neural stress provocation with auditory and motor cognitive distraction.