The Effects Of Instrument Cervical Manual Therapy Methods And Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Techniques

Bahçeşehir University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation; Other: Manual therapy application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05851703

neck pain

Details and patient eligibility

About

The location of neck pain is usually shown as "pain occurring between the occiput and the third thoracic vertebra". The annual incidence of mechanical neck pain is 12/1000 patients and is one of the most common reasons for visiting physicians. Neck pain usually lasts longer than 3 months and results in a high cost to society

Full description

Movement in one plane in the cervical spine is due to the contribution of vertebrae from other planes. This complicates the kinematics and injury mechanism of the cervical region. Considering the mechanism of injury, demographic information to be obtained from the person is very important.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 months to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Those with neck pain
• Being between 20-60 years old

Exclusion criteria

• High blood pressure
• Cardiopulmonary disease
• Malignant
• Operation, injection, etc. for the neck in the last 3 months. those with a history of treatment
• Spine surgery
• Psychological disturbance
• Neurological and orthopedic deficits

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Manual therapy applications:

Experimental group

Description:

In lower cervical lateral flexion problems, pushing technique will be applied with instrument support from the articular pillar part of the superior vertebra on the side where the limitation is present

Treatment:

Other: Manual therapy application

Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation

Experimental group

Description:

Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) techniques will be applied to the second group.

Treatment:

Other: Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation