The STONE-Trial (STOckholm NEck Trial): The effect of massage and/or physical exercise on sub-acute or long lasting neck pai
- Conditions
- on-Specific Neck painMusculoskeletal Diseases
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN01453590
- Lead Sponsor
- Scandinavian College of Naprapathic Manual Medicine (Naprapathögskolan) (Sweden)
- Brief Summary
2015 protocol in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377322 2019 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31655314 (added 14/01/2020) 2020 cost-effectiveness analysis in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2020.102109 (added 27/01/2020)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 619
1. Age 18-70 years
2. Ongoing neck pain (including whiplash associated pain WAD and neck pain with headache and/or radiating findings in the upper limbs) of sub-acute (30-90 days duration) or long lasting (>90days duration) duration with pain intensity of at least 2 on a numerical rating scale (0-10), as an average the preceding 4 weeks and at present. The neck pain shall be such that it is disturbing daily activities at work and/ or leisure
3. Participants are required to have a mobile phone and access to internet
1. Pregnancy
2. Inability to understand Swedish
3. Manual therapy or physical therapy for the neck pain in the preceding months
4. Problems with the skin that makes it difficult to give massage in the area
5. Have or have had cancer
6. Too mild symptoms
7. Surgery in the painful area
8. Acute prolapsed disc
9. Spondylolisthesis, stenosis
10. Red flags (older than 55 when the pain debut for the first time, recent trauma in the area, constant pain or pain getting worse in the night, cancer in the past or at present, consumption steroids now or recently, drug abuser, HIV)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method