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NCT number NCT01528579
Other study ID # PeolssonAWADlong-term
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received January 22, 2012
Last updated March 6, 2017
Start date March 2011
Est. completion date December 2014

Study information

Verified date March 2017
Source Linkoeping University
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background:

Costs of health care consumption and sick leave 2006 in Sweden for Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD) was estimated to be 4 billion Swedish crowns. Despite tremendous costs and personal sufferings there are only a few prospective randomized studies (RCT) in patients with chronic WAD, and none of them evaluating return to work, or the role of neck specific exercises with or without a combination of a behavioral approach compared with prescribed physical activity.

Aim:

The general aim of this RCT is to examine what neck-specific training with or without a combination with behavioral approach adds to prescribed physical activity of persons with chronic WAD with regard to pain intensity, physical and psychological function, health care consumption and return to work. Another aim is to study predictive factors of importance for a good outcome of rehabilitation.

Method:

After informed consent patients in age 18-63 years of age with WAD II-III with more than 6 months duration will be randomized to one out of the three alternatives of physiotherapy, treatment with medical exercise therapy with neck specific exercises (A),treatment with a behavioral approach combined with neck specific exercises (B), prescribed physical activity (C). Randomisation will be done by the central project leader. 200 patients will be included in the study. All physiotherapists engaged in the structured and well described treatment will be introduced in the program by the project leader. The measurements with good clinometric properties will be performed before treatment, after 12 weeks, 6, 12 and 24 months after inclusion into the study. Clinical measurements will be performed by a blinded investigator. Background data, disease-specific and generic data will be measured by self-evaluated answered questionnaires by the patients. Days of sick-leave will be collected from the Social Insurance Agency. Main outcomes of the measurements are pain intensity, neck specific disability and return to work. Cost-effectiveness will be calculated.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 216
Est. completion date December 2014
Est. primary completion date December 2014
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 63 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Age 18-63 years

- WAD II-III

- Remaining problems (>10mm on 100mm Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) or >20% on Neck Disability Index (NDI) or at least moderate pin on NDI) at least 6 months but no more than 3 years after whiplash trauma

Exclusion Criteria:

- Myelopathy

- Earlier fracture or luxation of the cervical column, earlier neck injury

- Spinal tumour

- Spinal infection

- Surgery in the cervical column

- Malignity

- Systematic disease or another injury contraindicated to perform the treatment program or the measurements.

- Diagnosed severe psychiatric disorder

- Unconscious in connection to the trauma

- Known drug abuse

- Lack of familiarity with the Swedish language

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Neck Specific Exercises
2 times a week for 3 months followed by encourages to continue on their own
Behavioral:
Behavioral approach combined with neck specific exercises
Behavioral physiotherapeutic approach combined with neck specific exercises 2 times a week for 3 months. Exercises will be chosen from a well defined and structured frame of exercises.
Other:
Prescribed Physical activity
Physical activity without neck specific exercises for 3 months

Locations

Country Name City State
Sweden Department of Medical and Health Sciences, physiotherapy Linköping Östergötland
Sweden Linköping University Linköping Östergötland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Linkoeping University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Neck Disability Index (NDI) NDI will be measured at baseline before intervention. Change from baseline in NDI will be measured at 3,6,12,and 24 months to investigate change over time. Baseline and change after three and six months of exercises and to investigate if a potential change of the exercises remain at 12 month and 24 month from baseline. Baseline and change after 3 and 6 months of exercises, 3 month, 6 month, 12 month and 24 month follow-up. Change from baseline to follow-ups. Twelve month follow-up is the most important follow-up to investigate change over time from baseline.
Secondary Pain intensity on VAS Pain intensity is measured on a 100mm Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). before intervention, 3, 6, 12 and 24 months follow-up. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Pain Disability Index before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Neck muscle endurance in seconds before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Self-efficacy scale before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Work Ability Index before intervention and at 3, 6, 12 months and 24 months follow-up. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Euroquol before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary SF-36 before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Pain Catastrophizing Scale before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Tampa Scale 11, short version before intervention, 6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Neurological status Sensibility, reflexes,motor function upper extremeties, nerve tension test median nerve. before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Pain drawing For the pain-drawing task, patients indicated the extent and the distribution of their pain on outlines of full front and back views of a human body. After the patients completed each pain-drawing, the distributions of symptoms will be coded on a seven-point scale (were 0 is no pain, and 6 is pain distributed in the hand), and where the pain was located in the cervical, thoracic, and/or the lumbar spine, in the front and the back of the body, will be indicated using a clear overlay template. before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
Secondary Clinical objective measures Range of motion of the neck and cervical kinesthesia (ability to reproduce the neutral head position from 30° cervical rotation with the eyes closed) will be measured with Cervical range of motion device (CROM).
Balance (Static:sharpened Romberg's position with eyes closed. Dynamic: Walking in a figure-of-eight). Hand strength measured with a Jamar dynamometer. Dorsal and ventral eck muscle endurance measured in seconds.
before intervention, 3,6, 12, and 24 months follow-ups. The outcome measure is going to report a change over time.
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