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Virtual Reality in Chronic Neck Pain

K

Koç University

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Neck Pain

Treatments

Other: Experimental: VR and exercise
Other: Sham Comparator: exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06549166
2023.311.IRB1.107

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of virtual reality, which encourages active neck movements, in individuals with chronic neck pain, with the control group receiving only neck exercises. Participants will be randomly divided into two groups; Half of them will be given only a neck exercises program, and the other half will be given neck exercises and virtual reality.

Full description

Individuals with chronic neck pain tend to have low levels of endurance in deep neck flexor muscles. Conservative treatments for neck pain, including posture education, strengthening, range of motion, motor control, flexibility, and proprioceptive training, are recommended in clinical guidelines. Virtual reality has been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of various issues related to pain in previous systematic reviews. Distracting attention is one of the mechanisms explaining the impact of virtual reality on pain. It is believed that virtual reality reduces pain perception by influencing pain pathways.

Enrollment

46 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 45 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Ages 18 to 45
  • Having a history of non-traumatic neck pain persisting for more than three months
  • Having a Neck Disability Index score greater than 5 points
  • Not having participated in a physiotherapy program for at least 3 months
  • Being able to read and write in Turkish to understand, interpret, and respond to the questionnaires

Exclusion criteria

  • Having a surgical history in the neck region
  • Having cervical spine flexion, extension, and rotation range of motion <10 degrees
  • Having a history of rheumatologic, vestibular, neurological, or cardiopulmonary diseases
  • Vertigo associated with neck pain
  • Osteoporosis, vertebral fractures,spinal tumors
  • Presence of radiculopathy or myelopathy
  • Traumatic spinal cord injury
  • Neck pain associated with progressive neurological deficits or loss of strength

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

46 participants in 2 patient groups

VR and exercise
Experimental group
Description:
virtual reality and neck exercises
Treatment:
Other: Experimental: VR and exercise
exercise
Sham Comparator group
Description:
only neck exercise
Treatment:
Other: Sham Comparator: exercise

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Yasemin Gursoy Ozdemir, Prof

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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