Neck Pain Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Effect of Integrated Neuromuscular Inhibition Technique in Combination With Therapeutic Exercise on Patients With Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain
The purpose of this study is to examine the combine effect of the integrated neuromuscular inhibition technique (soft tissue mobilization techniques protocol), in combination with the therapeutic exercise in patients with chronic mechanical neck pain in the sub-acute stage of symptoms, and to determine whether this combination substantially helps the faster and more efficient installation of adaptations of exercising.
Neck pain is one of the most common and costly musculoskeletal disorders in Western
societies, which witnesses high prevalence of repeatability and chronicity. In chronic
mechanical neck pain, there are changes in the neck area, due to muscular imbalance between
deep neck flexors (longus capitis and longus colli) and superficial flexors of the neck
(sternocleidomastoid and anterior scalene). Therapeutic exercise plays a key role in the
restoration of this muscle imbalance, comprising a combination of resistant and endurance
training. The integrated neuromuscular inhibition technique (INIT) is a manual deactivation
trigger points technique and includes the application of ischemic pressure and stretch, the
muscle energy technique and the Strain-counterstrain technique.
The aim of the research is to investigate whether the application of INIT combined with
exercise can reduce the time required to establish the benefits of training and improve
faster and to a greater extent the clinical figure and the quality of life of patients with
chronic neck pain.
Method. Single blind clinical trial lasting for 10 weeks, 40 participants (men/women) with
chronic mechanical neck pain. Participants will be divided into two groups, following the
same exercise program. The first group (experimental) will follow the exercise programme in
combination with the integrated neuromuscular inhibition technique (INIT), while the second
(active comparator) will apply the same program excluding the INIT technique. The subjective
perception of pain by the visual analogue scale, the functionality related to neck pain with
neck disability index, ppt of the neck muscles with pressure algometry, active range of
motion with a bubble inclinometer, maximum isometric strength of neck muscles with a hand
dynamometer, muscular fatigue of the flexors of the neck with special tests and the quality
of life with the sf-36 questionnaire will be evaluated before, during and after the
intervention, while follow-ups will take place one, three and six months later.
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