Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise Versus Exercise for University Students With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain: a Randomized, Controlled and Single Blind Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 52
- 主要终点
- Pain intensity
研究概览
简要总结
This study examined the effects of pain neuroscience education plus exercise when compared with exercise only in university students with chronic idiopathic neck pain.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •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.
排除标准
- •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.
结局指标
主要结局
Pain intensity
时间窗: At 3 months
Measured using the visual analogue scale
次要结局
- 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)
研究者
Anabela G Silva
Dr
Aveiro University