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Filter by:This study evaluates, if the movement of the cervical spine, assessed via a specific questionnaire by the patient, is a valid and reliable tool and could be used in daily clinical routine.
The aim of the study is to investigate if a home-based structured physician-directed, nurse-managed telemedicine program can increase adherence to a home exercise program and decrease neck pain and disability. The study is carried out in 100 consecutive patients with chronic non-specific neck pain. All patients referred to a rehabilitation Institute for an out-.patient visit complete a stretching exercise program and are instructed and encouraged to perform exercises regularly once at home. At the end of the rehabilitation, the patients are randomized into two groups of 50 patients each. Patients of the first Group are allocated to a home-based telemedicine (HBT), while those of the second group receive only the recommendation to continue exercising at home (Control group). The HBT intervention consists of fortnightly scheduled phone calls to patients over the 6-month course of the study. A nurse-tutor encourages the patient to perform regularly physical activity and prescribes exercises. Adherence to home exercises is evaluated 15 days and 6 months after the end of the outpatient rehabilitation, while pain intensity and neck disability are assessed and compared in the two groups at entry and 6 months after the end of the outpatient rehabilitation .
The aim of this trial will be to examine the short and long term effectiveness of dry needling on pain, disability, and patient perceived improvements in patients with neck pain attending physical therapy. The investigators hypothesize that patients who receive dry needling, manual therapy, and exercise will achieve greater reductions in pain and disability in the short (4 weeks) and long term (6 and 12 months) compared to those who receive sham dry needling, manual therapy, and exercise.
This project aims to study the effectiveness of a pain education program in the improvement of chronic pain and disability/impairment. Assuming the definition established in the United States in 1975 on the fourth working group of the National Conference on Preventive Medicine: "Health education must be a process that informs, motivates and helps people to adopt and maintain practices and healthy lifestyles, environmental advocates changes necessary to facilitate these objectives and professional training and directs research towards the same objectives. " Once the need of educating patients is stablished on subjects with diseases, it is necessary to encourage them to actively participate on the control of them and to achieve significant improvement of adherence
This randomised, controlled multi-centre parallel group trial will assess the efficacy and tolerability of a topical formulation gel of the combination of diclofenac and capsaicin in comparison to gels with diclofenac alone, capsaicin alone, and placebo for the treatment of acute back pain or neck pain
Neck pain is a very common problem in the population. Most of the patients suffer from neck pain for long time and the problem becomes chronic. The investigators studied the effects of scapular stabilization exercise on mechanical neck pain.
This study evaluates if the German Version of the NDI is sensitive to change over time.
The purpose of this project is to assess the impact of an educational video on the use of prescription opioid medication during a 6-month period following spine surgery. Subjects will be recruited from the pool of patients coming in for the pre-operative appointment prior to spine surgery. Patients that consent and enroll will be randomized to receive either a brief educational video at this appointment or usual care. Patients will be followed after surgery weekly for the first month, and then again at 6 months to determine their prescription opioid medication utilization patterns. Prescription data will also be pulled from electronic medical records.
This study there are any associations between objective and subjective outcome measures, measuring the cervical range of motion and if the restriction matter to the patient.
The Investigators are performing a study to determine, in patients with chronic/recurrent neck pain, the cerebrovascular hemodynamic consequences of cervical spine movements, including manipulation, in vivo using fMRI technology on vertebral and cranial blood flow dynamics affecting brain perfusion, and extend the current data set on these variables