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Objective- To see if the use of heat at home between physical therapy sessions results in better therapy outcomes in people with acute neck pain.

Setting: Physical Therapy outpatient rehabilitation center Participants: 90 people with acute nonspecific neck pain broken into 4 groups. Intervention: All subjects will undergo 45 minutes of therapy 2 times per week for 2 weeks. All subjects will accomplish 1 hour of therapeutic exercise at home on days when there is no therapy. Thirty of the subjects will use ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 30 used Ibuprofen plus ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 15 will use a sham heat wrap and an Ibuprofen placebo each day (1200 mg / day) and the last 15 will be controls with conventional physical therapy.


Clinical Trial Description

Neck pain patients admitted to an outpatient physical therapy program will be randomly assigned to either a control or 3 experimental groups. An initial evaluation and rehabilitation program will be established which includes a home exercise program. Therapy will be 2 days per week for 2 weeks. Thirty of the subjects will use ThermaCare continuous heat neck wraps applied for 6 hours before home exercise, 30 will use ibuprofen (1200 mg /day given in 3 dosages) plus ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 15 will use a sham heat wrap and a Ibuprofen placebo each day and the last 15 will have conventional therapy. Intervention with heat or Ibuprofen will be used on days that they are not being treated in the clinic. All groups will be evaluated initially and after 2 weeks. They will be given home exercise and heat compliance logs and analog visual pain scales to be filled out each night before exercise and, if they used heat, before and after heat will be applied. The physical therapist will also be asked to evaluate their home compliance, pain and the benefit to them from the heat packs. Subjects will complete a neck disability questionnaire at the beginning and end of the study. At the end of the two weeks of treatment, a multivariate ANOVA will be performed to compare changes in home exercise compliance, functional level, pain level, range of motion, and strength. A statistical level of p≤.05 is considered predictive of a difference between groups. ;


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NCT number NCT02327338
Study type Interventional
Source Future Sciene Technology
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 4
Start date November 2014
Completion date March 2015

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