Effectiveness of Routine Physical Therapy With and Without Thoracic Mobility Exercises in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 100
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in Neck Disability Index Questionnaire
Study Overview
Brief Summary
There is a limited data available on the effectiveness of thoracic mobility exercises in chronic neck pain and there is a need to determine these exercises in chronic neck pain because chronic neck pain has significant effects on the surrounding muscles of the neck and cervical spine and along with the muscles of shoulder and arm. So the mobility exercises of any region around the neck area can reduce neck pain because these structures are interlinked anatomically and functionally aspects.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years old and over
- •A medical diagnosis of chronic cervical pain (more than 3 months of cervical pain evolution)
- •Positive flexion rotation test
Exclusion Criteria
- •cervical radiculopathy
- •History of Trauma, any Surgery, any Systemic diseases, any Fractures, congenital diseases.
- •Dislocation.
Arms & Interventions
Routine Physical Therapy with Thoracic mobility exercise
Combination of Routine Physical Therapy with Thoracic mobility exercise.
Intervention: Routine Physical Therapy with Thoracic mobility exercise (Other)
Routine Physical Therapy
Routine Physical Therapy exercise
Intervention: Routıne Physıcal therapy (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in Neck Disability Index Questionnaire
Time Frame: 8 week
The Neck Disability Index is a modification of the Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Index . It is a patient-completed, condition-specific functional status questionnaire with 10 items including pain, personal care, lifting, reading, headaches, concentration, work, driving, sleeping and recreation. The Neck Disability Index has sufficient support and usefulness to retain its current status as the most commonly used self-report measure for neck painç maximum Score is 50. 0 - 4 = no disability 5 - 14 = mild 15 - 24 = moderate 25 - 34 = severe above 34 = complete.
Visual Analogue Scale
Time Frame: 8 week
To determine the change in pain of patients. Total score is 10. Higher the score, Greater the pain.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Ishtiaq Ahmed
Physiotherapist
Government College University Faisalabad