Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise Versus Exercise for University Students With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain: a Randomized, Controlled and Single Blind Study
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 52
- Primary Endpoint
- Pain intensity
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study examined the effects of pain neuroscience education plus exercise when compared with exercise only in university students with chronic idiopathic neck pain.
Detailed Description
This study examined the effects of pain neuroscience education plus exercise when compared with exercise only in university students with chronic idiopathic neck pain.
University students with chronic neck pain were randomly allocated to receive pain neuroscience education and exercise or exercise only and assessed at baseline, after the intervention and at 3 months follow up. Outcome variables were pain intensity (primary outcome), disability, fear of movement, catastrophizing, knowledge of pain neurophysiology, pressure pain thresholds and neck and scapular muscle endurance.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Participants could enter the study if they had chronic idiopathic neck pain, defined as pain felt in the neck at least once a week in the previous 3 months and for which no cause had been established. Furthermore, they were required to have a minimum pain intensity in the previous week of 2 in the visual analogue scale.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Participants were excluded if they had had physiotherapy for their neck pain in the 6 months previous to the study, if they had rheumatic, nervous, cardiac and/or respiratory pathology that could prevent or make it difficult to do the exercises. Exclusion criteria were ascertained by self-report.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Pain intensity
Time Frame: At 3 months
Measured using the visual analogue scale
Secondary Outcomes
- Neck extensors endurance(5 weeks)
- Scapular stabilizers endurance(5 weeks)
- catastrophizing(3 months)
- Knowledge of pain neurophysiology(3 months)
- Pressure pain thresholds(5 weeks)
- Disability(3 months)
- fear of movement(3 months)
- Deep neck flexor endurance(5 weeks)
Investigators
Anabela G Silva
Dr
Aveiro University