Treatment of Patients With Neck Pain After a Commuting Accident

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Cervical Injury Spine

Treatments: Other: Observational cohort group

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06938828

Itinere

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction. Neck pain is one of the main causes of incapacity for work. The economic impact of neck pain is considerable due to the cost of medical treatment and physiotherapy. Accidents in itinere, those that occur on the way between home and the workplace, can cause pain and functional impairment.

Objective. To analyze the relationship between the time off work following accidents on the way to and from work and the type of treatment received.

Material and method. Multicenter retrospective cohort study. Data will be collected from 146 patients. The primary variable of the study will be the time on sick leave (in days), with the type of intervention received (manual therapy or not) being the dependent variable. The secondary variables, estimated as modifying or confounding, will be the intensity of the pain (visual analog scale), sex, age, occupational cervical strain, type of contract (salaried/self-employed) and the number of physiotherapy sessions received.

Enrollment: 204 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of both sexes
• Persons aged 18 to 65
• Patients with a medical diagnosis of neck pain secondary to traffic accidents while commuting
• Persons without a medical diagnosis of another associated pathology
• Patients whose accident occurred between 2022 and 2024.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have received physiotherapy treatment at another centre during the process
• Patients who requested voluntary discharge for whatever reason.

Trial design

204 participants in 1 patient group

Observational group

Description:

Data will be collected from medical records of a mutual insurance company that collaborates with the Social Security. The data will be from patients of both sexes with a medical diagnosis of neck pain secondary to traffic accidents while commuting and without a medical diagnosis of associated traffic pathology, between the years 2022 and 2024. The patients had received a physiotherapy intervention with and without manual therapy.

Treatment:

Other: Observational cohort group