Treatment of Patients With Neck Pain After a Commuting Accident

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Cervical Injury Spine

• Registration Number: NCT06938828
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Brief Summary

Introduction. Neck pain is one of the main causes of incapacity for work. The economic impact of neck pain is considerable due to the cost of medical treatment and physiotherapy. Accidents in itinere, those that occur on the way between home and the workplace, can cause pain and functional impairment.

Objective. To analyze the relationship between the time off work following accidents on the way to and from work and the type of treatment received.

Material and method. Multicenter retrospective cohort study. Data will be collected from 146 patients. The primary variable of the study will be the time on sick leave (in days), with the type of intervention received (manual therapy or not) being the dependent variable. The secondary variables, estimated as modifying or confounding, will be the intensity of the pain (visual analog scale), sex, age, occupational cervical strain, type of contract (salaried/self-employed) and the number of physiotherapy sessions received.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2025-04
• Study First Submitted: 2025-04-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-04-14
• Study Start: 2025-04-22
• Study First Posted: 2025-04-22
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-05-03
• Last Update Posted: 2025-05-06
• Primary Completion: 2025-05-13
• Study Completion: 2025-05-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 204

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients of both sexes
• Persons aged 18 to 65
• Patients with a medical diagnosis of neck pain secondary to traffic accidents while commuting
• Persons without a medical diagnosis of another associated pathology
• Patients whose accident occurred between 2022 and 2024.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who have received physiotherapy treatment at another centre during the process
• Patients who requested voluntary discharge for whatever reason.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Measurement of time off work	Screening visit	The dependent variable, time off work, will be measured in days.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Measurement of type of intervention received	Screening visit	The secondary variable, type of intervention received, will be evaluated with a dichotomous coding: manual therapy or no manual therapy.
Measurement of pain intensity at the time of medical discharge	Screening visit	The secondary variable, pain intensity at the time of medical discharge, will be collected with the recording of the visual analog scale (range 0-10)
Measurement of the number of physiotherapy sessions received	Screening visit	The secondary variable, number of physiotherapy sessions received, will be measured quantitatively (in days of treatment administration). This value will be collected from the physiotherapy record
Measurement of the type of employment contract of the patients	Screening visit	The secondary variable, type of employment contract of the patients, will be collected in a dichotomous qualitative variable (salaried/self-employed)
Measuring the age of the patients	Screening visit	The secondary variable, age of the patients, will be collected in a quantitative variable of completed years (measured in days)
Measurement of patients' occupational cervical strain	Screening visit	The secondary variable, patients' cervical strain , will be collected in a qualitative variable (Yes/No) depending on the type of work of the patients, their daily work may or may not require cervical strain.
Measuring the gender of patients	Screening visit	The secondary variable, the gender of patients, will be collected in a qualitative variable (Female/Male).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia; 🇪🇸 Murcia, Spain