Inmediate Effect of the Visualization of Action

Chronic Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Inmediate Effect of the Visualization of Action

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03547752
• Other study ID #: OA plus MI in neck pain
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: June 2018
• Source: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The observation of actions and motor imagery has demonstrated the activation of certain mechanisms similar to those that occur during active movement, which could induce immediate changes in the amplitudes of movement and sensorimotor variables in observed and imagined movements. The main aim of the study was test the immediate effect of a protocol of observed actions and motor imagery on cervical range of motion and pain intensity in patients with non-specific chronic neck pain (NSCNP). Randomized double-blind clinical trial in patients with DCCI at a primary health care center in the Community of Madrid. A random distribution of study subjects was made into two groups: a) cervical motion videos were presented at full range of motion and b) the videos presented showed a range of motion limited to 40%. In both groups, visualization tasks of actions were alternated with internal kinesthetic motor imagery, in periods of 1min in 2 consecutive series and with a total of 12 minutes of intervention. Cervical range of motion was assessed with a cervical goniometer and pain intensity immediately following the intervention with an Analog Visual Scale.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Nos-Specific Chronic Neck Pain lasting more than 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• Systemic Disease diagnosed (i.e. Lupus, Fibrolyalgia or Rheumatoid Arthritis)

• Background of fractures or surgery in the cervical region

• congenital anomalies known

• infectious processes or diagnosis of active cancer at the time of the study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Pain
• Musculoskeletal Pain
• Neck Pain

Intervention

Other:
• observed action and motor imaginery
Observation of a video of neck movement and imagination of the same observed movement, feeling the realization of the movement but not developing it.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	CS Entrevías	Madrid

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

References & Publications (5)

Eaves DL, Riach M, Holmes PS, Wright DJ. Motor Imagery during Action Observation: A Brief Review of Evidence, Theory and Future Research Opportunities. Front Neurosci. 2016 Nov 21;10:514. eCollection 2016. Review. — View Citation

Mao C, Wei L, Zhang Q, Liao X, Yang X, Zhang M. Differences in brain structure in patients with distinct sites of chronic pain: A voxel-based morphometric analysis. Neural Regen Res. 2013 Nov 15;8(32):2981-90. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2013.32.001. — View Citation

Muñoz-García D, Gil-Martínez A, López-López A, Lopez-de-Uralde-Villanueva I, La Touche R, Fernández-Carnero J. Chronic Neck Pain and Cervico-Craniofacial Pain Patients Express Similar Levels of Neck Pain-Related Disability, Pain Catastrophizing, and Cervical Range of Motion. Pain Res Treat. 2016;2016:7296032. doi: 10.1155/2016/7296032. Epub 2016 Mar 29. — View Citation

Niddam DM, Lee SH, Su YT, Chan RC. Brain structural changes in patients with chronic myofascial pain. Eur J Pain. 2017 Jan;21(1):148-158. doi: 10.1002/ejp.911. Epub 2016 Jun 28. — View Citation

van Hecke O, Torrance N, Smith BH. Chronic pain epidemiology and its clinical relevance. Br J Anaesth. 2013 Jul;111(1):13-8. doi: 10.1093/bja/aet123. Review. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Cervical Range of Movement	CROM goniometer	at the beginning and after the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Secondary	Cervical Pain Disability	Neck Disability Index	at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Secondary	Pain Intensity	Visual Ananlogue Scale: 10cm line, were the left limit means "no pain" and the right limit means "worst imaginable pain"	at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Secondary	Catastrophizism	Pain Catastrophizing Scale	at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Secondary	Health Related Quality of Life	EuroQoL-5D-5L	at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Secondary	Anxiety and Depression	Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADs)	at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)