The effectiveness of a brief physiotherapy intervention in the community setting for patients with neck related pain compared with traditional physiotherapy management

Completed

Conditions: Musculoskeletal diseases: Spinal conditions
Spinal conditions
Musculoskeletal Diseases

Registration Number: ISRCTN71946848

Lead Sponsor: HS R&D Regional Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 268

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria updated as of 25/07/2007:
1. A minimum age of 18 years
2. Neck pain of musculoskeletal origin lasting at least two weeks
3. Referred to a participating physiotherapy department and having consented to participate in the study
4. Willingness to be randomized; that is, no overwhelming preference for either intervention

Inclusion criteria provided at time of registration:
Patients who are referred by their GPs to the participating community based physiotherapy departments for the management of neck related pain thought to be of musculoskeletal origin and corresponding to the diagnostic categories 1 and 2 (neck pain with or without referral to the proximal extremity) of the classification system proposed by the Quebec Task Force on Spinal Disorders.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria added as of 25/07/2007:
1. Potentially serious pathology
2. Main pain below the elbow or in some other part of the body or coexisting ?serious other problem? (such as capsulitis of the shoulder or tennis elbow) that would require additional treatment other than that required for the neck pain
3. Recent treatment for a neck problem (in the previous six weeks) or intention to pursue additional (private) treatment concurrent with that provided by the physiotherapy department
4. Surgery on the neck

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Neck Pain Questionnaire: a condition specific questionnaire measuring functional disability which has been developed from the Oswestry Disability Score for back pain patients <br>2. SF-36: This is a generic health-related quality of life questionnaire including both psychological and physical factors <br>3. EuroQol: This a generic quality of life measure required for the economic evaluation

Secondary Outcome Measures