Using Mobile Application for Rehabilitation in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain; Neck Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Electrotherapy; Other: Home-Based Exercise Program followed by paper booklet; Other: Exercise follow up with mobile application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05284630

SaglikBilimU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to reduce pain, increase range of motion, increase the endurance of deep cervical flexors muscles, and increase quality of life with mobile application in the treatment of patients with chronic neck pain. Although many benefits of exercises have been proven, the effectiveness, follow-up and continuity of exercise will be investigated with mobile application tracking.

Full description

One of the important factors in mechanical chronic neck pain is the decrease in the endurance of the deep cervical flexor muscles. As a result of this decrease, an increase to the activation of M. Scalenus Anterior and M. Sternocleidomastoid muscles is observed. It is known that patients avoid some movements due to pain, and as a result, loss of muscle strength and endurance in the neck, upper back, around the scapula and shoulder occurs. The loss in strength and endurance, combined with the severity of pain, may affect the stability of the upper extremity has been considered.

Patients with chronic neck pain may experience a number of problems due to the predisposition to accompany pain or some problems caused by neck pain. It is known that all these problems affect the quality of life of patients by limiting their daily living activities.

With the developing technology, mobile health applications have started to be used more and more in our lives. In addition to preventing disease, reducing risk factors, increasing physical activity and quality of life, mobile applications are used in many different areas such as diagnosis, treatment, feedback and monitoring.

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having chronic neck pain in the past 6 months
• No communication problem
• Be Literate,
• Individuals who speaks Turkish and can use developed mobile application

Exclusion criteria

• Previous neck or shoulder surgery,
• Shoulder pain due to any reason,
• Having tumor or inflammatory disease underlying neck pain
• Having mental disorder,
• Individual with sequestered disc level or root compression,
• Individual with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and hypertension
• Patients received additional treatment
• Patients who did not complete physical therapy sessions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Exercise follow up with mobile application in patients with chronic neck pain five sessions a week for 4 weeks

Treatment:

Procedure: Electrotherapy

Other: Exercise follow up with mobile application

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Home based exercise follow up him/herself in patients with chronic neck pain five sessions a week for 4 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Home-Based Exercise Program followed by paper booklet

Procedure: Electrotherapy