Active Intervention for Patients With Neck Pain

Neck Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of an Active Program in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03987516
• Other study ID #: DF0081UG
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 11, 2019
• Est. completion date: September 11, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: Universidad de Granada
• Contact: Marie Carmen Valenza, PhD
• Phone: 958248035
• Email: cvalenza[@]ugr.es
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Neck pain is a complex biopsychosocial disorder often precipitated or aggravated by neck movements or sustained neck postures. More than 80 % of individuals experience neck pain and neck associated disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 4-week active exercising program in patients with chronic neck pain.

Description:

While neck pain can be severely disabling and costly, treatment options have shown moderate evidence of effectiveness. The optimal physiotherapy intervention is currently unclear. Consequently, more research in this area combining different techniques in patients with a specific clinical profile is needed. It has been previously shown that participants prefer self-care measures for the management of neck pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 4-week active exercising program in patients with chronic neck pain.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: September 11, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: August 11, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• To suffer from chronic neck pain (at least 3 months' duration)

• Neck pain of at least 3 on a visual analogue scale.

• Participants' symptoms should be at least partly related to increased nerve mechanosensitivity in the neck and upper limb confirmed by the reproduction of participants' symptoms by median nerve upper-limb neurodynamic test.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Whiplash related neck pain.

• Previous cervical surgical intervention.

• Cognitive impairments which prevent them to follow instructions.

• Visual or acoustic limitations.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Neck Pain

Intervention

Other:
• Active exercising
Patients allocated to the experimental group were included in an active exercising program adapted to each patient

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Department of Physical Therapy	Granada

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad de Granada

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Changes in number of active trigger points	Baseline, 4 weeks	Changes from baseline to 4 weeks in the number of active trigger points assessed by palpation. The percentage of active trigger points is obtained.
Secondary	Severity of pain	Baseline, 4 weeks	Changes from baseline to 4 weeks in the severity of pain assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory. The severity and the interference of pain with daily life subscales were included. Score is the sum of the items divided by the number of items.
Secondary	Functionality	Baseline, 4 weeks	Changes from baseline to 4 weeks on functionality assessed using the Neck Outcome Score.Symptoms, sleep disturbance, every day activity and pain and participation in everyday life subscales were included. They Ranged from 0 to 100 (no simptoms).