Workplace Based Physiotherapy of Elderly-care Workers With Non-specific Neck Pain: a Five Week Intervention With a One Month Follow-up Study.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Changes Pressure Pain
研究概览
简要总结
The overall objective of this study is to determine the efficacy of a physical therapy intervention based on manual therapy, therapeutic exercise and application of electrotherapy in healthcare workers with non-specific neck pain.
详细描述
The subjects included in the sample will be evaluated according to the aforementioned parameters by researchers trained and assigned for this purpose.
The data collection of the different variables will be performed before and after the completion of the program designed for the study. The physiotherapy intervention for the experimental group will have a duration of 10 sessions, twice a week.
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 (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 60 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •IInclusion Criteria:
- •Age range between 18-60 years.
- •Cervical pain of non-specific origin or Cervicalgia type I and II according to the Quebec - Task Force on Spinal Disorders.
- •Be willing to participate in the study and sign the informed consent form.
- •Have at least one year of seniority in the company exercising the current professional activity within the team of socio-health personnel.
排除标准
- •Cervicalgia with neurological involvement or caused by pathologies such as: inflammatory disease, neurological disease, rheumatic disease, severe osteoporosis, fracture, dislocation, vertebro-basilar insufficiency, neoplasia or infection.
- •Spine surgery.
- •Present metallic implants at the spinal column level.
- •Have received physiotherapy or alternative treatment in the last 6 months before starting the study.
- •To present any type of inconvenience to the application of electrotherapy (score ≥45 points in EAPP).
结局指标
主要结局
Changes Pressure Pain
时间窗: 5 weeks
Pressure Pain with Algometry. To assess the mechanosensitivity of the trigger points , the pain threshold was measured at the pressure. Unit of measure Kg/cm2.
Changes in Disability
时间窗: 5 weeks
Neck Disability Index ( NDI) through which will give us the degree of disability neck pain.The NDI consists of 10 sections, 4 of them are related to subjective symptoms (pain intensity, headache, head, ability to concentrate and quality of sleep) and the other 6 are related to basic activities of daily living (ABVD) (personal care, ability to lift weights, reading, work, driving, leisure activities and free time). Each of the sections presents 6 possible answers, scoring these from 0 to 5 according to the progression of functional disability.
Changes in Pain
时间窗: 5 weeks
A visual analog scale (VAS). The scale is represented by a 10-centimeter line at the ends of which there are two adjectives whose ends there are two adjectives, absence of pain (0) and unbearable pain (10). The higher the score, the greater the pain.
次要结局
- Changes in Range of Motion(5 weeks)
- General Health.(5 weeks)
研究者
Mª Ángeles Cardero Durán
Principal Investigator
Universidad de Extremadura