Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain

Neck Pain Clinical Trial

— TaiChiNe  

Official title:

Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02222051
• Other study ID #: 13-5672 Tai Chi Neck Pain
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 2014
• Est. completion date: April 2015

Study information

• Verified date: April 2018
• Source: Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In this study the efficacy of Tai Chi will be tested in comparison to conventional neck exercises and usual care in a randomized controlled trial. Tai Chi and neck exercises will be lead by a trained exercise therapist and Tai Chi instructor, both groups receive 12 weeks of training, once weekly for 60-90 min in a group setting. Pain, Disability, quality of life, wellbeing, stress perception, psychological distress will be used to determine effects.

Description:

see above

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 114
• Est. completion date: April 2015
• Est. primary completion date: December 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• chronic non specific neck pain (3 months at least)

• 45mm pain intensity on average on the visual analog scale

Exclusion Criteria:

• specific neck pain due to

• inflammatory diseases

• rheumatic diseases

• neurological diseases

• prolapse or protrusion

• oncological disease

• trauma (whiplash)

• congenital deformity of the spine

• severe comorbidity (somatic, psychiatric)

• pregnancy

• participation in other clinical trials

• regular practice of tai chi, qigong, yoga in the past 6 months

• medication with opioids

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Neck Pain

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Tai Chi
traditional chinese martial art meditative movement technique
• Neck exercises
group exercises for strengthening and stretching neck and back muslces to alleviate neck pain

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte	Essen	NRW

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universität Duisburg-Essen

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

References & Publications (2)

Lauche R, Stumpe C, Fehr J, Cramer H, Cheng YW, Wayne PM, Rampp T, Langhorst J, Dobos G. The Effects of Tai Chi and Neck Exercises in the Treatment of Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Pain. 2016 Sep;17(9):1013-27. doi: 10.10 — View Citation

Lauche R, Wayne PM, Fehr J, Stumpe C, Dobos G, Cramer H. Does Postural Awareness Contribute to Exercise-Induced Improvements in Neck Pain Intensity? A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Tai Chi and Neck Exercises. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2017 Aug 15;42(16):1195-1200. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000002078. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Experiences	Experiences with Tai Chi and neck exercises, qualitative interviews	Week 24
Primary	pain intensity	pain intensity on a visual analogue scale (0-100mm)	week 12
Secondary	pain intensity	pain intensity on a visual analogue scale (0-100mm)	week 24
Secondary	pain on movement	pain intensity on a visual analogue scale (0-100mm) evoked by head movement into 6 directions POM validated by Lauche et al., 2014, Pain Medicine	week 12, week 24
Secondary	neck disability	neck disability index (NDI), Vernon et al.	week 12, week 24
Secondary	health related quality of life	short form quality of life questionnaire (SF-36), Bullinger and Kirchberger	week 12, week 24
Secondary	Anxiety and Depression	Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)	week 12, week 24
Secondary	Wellbeing	Wellbeing on the FEW16 Questionnaire	week 12, week 24
Secondary	Stress	Subjective stress perception, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)	week 12, week 24
Secondary	interoceptive awareness	The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA)	week 12, week 24
Secondary	Postural Awareness	Postural Awareness Questionnaire (PAS)	week 12, week 24
Secondary	Safety	All adverse and serious adverse events	week 24
Secondary	pain intensity ratings	daily rating of pain intensity, visual analog scales	week 12
Secondary	use of analgetics	daily information on use of analgetics	week 12
Secondary	use of concomitant therapies	daily information on use of concomitant therapies for neck pain	week 12