Chiropractic Manual Therapy and Neck Pain

Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain Clinical Trial

Official title: Generalizing a Valid Control Manipulation to a Multiple Operator, Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Study for Chronic Neck Pain

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Eligible subjects with chronic neck pain will be randomly allocated to one of two intervention groups: real vs control spinal manipulation. They will receive three intervention sessions.

H1: Chronic neck pain patients treated longitudinally over a series of three encounters in one week by random assignment to treatment group with either of the dual delivery procedures (Intervention 1=typical-control or Intervention 2=control-control) will have a 50% error rate of self-report of group allocation at exit interview.

H2: Patients treated by the typical-control dual procedure over a typical sequence of encounters (3 times in one week) will show statistically significant improvement in clinical outcomes; defined quantitatively by visual analogue pain scale (VAS), Neck Disability Index (NDI), range of motion and pressure algometry; compared to those treated by the control-control dual procedure.

H3: Patients stratified by 'a priori' patient expectation for treatment outcome will show no significant difference in self-report of group allocation or clinical outcome measures.

A total of 372 subjects will be recruited.

Clinical Trial Description

n/a

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain
• Neck Pain

• NCT number: NCT01772966
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 2013
• Completion date: August 2016