Evaluation of different types of treatments for chronic neck pai

Completed

Conditions: Chronic non-specific neck-shoulder pain
Signs and Symptoms
Pain, not elsewhere classified

Registration Number: ISRCTN92199001

Lead Sponsor: Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (Sweden)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Female

Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

Participants with neck-shoulder pain:
1. Women, age 25-65 years
2. Non-specific neck-shoulder pain with a duration of at least 3 months
3. Decreased physical functioning according to the Disability Arm Shoulder Hand (DASH) questionnaire (at least 9 normalised points on 19 selected questions addressing ability to perform all daily activity involving neck, shoulder and arm)

Baseline control group:
1. Women, age 25-65 years
2. Healthy volunteers without neck pain

Exclusion Criteria

Participants with neck-shoulder pain:
1. Trauma to the head and neck associated with the onset or with any worsening of the symptoms
2. Conditions of rheumatic-, inflammatory- or neurological disease or fibromyalgia
3. Evidence of back-, neck- or shoulder surgery or fracture
4. Cervical rhizopathia
5. Signs of vestibular dysfunction

Baseline control group:
1. Trauma to the head, neck or shoulder that has caused considerable problems
2. Conditions of rheumatic-, inflammatory- or neurological disease or fibromyalgia
3. Evidence of back-, neck- or shoulder operation or fracture

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Sensorimotor functioning (Timepoints of assessment: 1 week before start of treatment; 1 week and 6 month after end of treatment):<br>1.1. Magnitude of fast and slow component of postural sway, calculated from force platform centre of pressure data <br>1.2. Arm movement precision, measured as end-point precision (variability in horizontal, depth and vertical directions) in a goal-directed arm movement task <br><br>2. Self-rated health, symptoms and functioning (Timepoints of assessment: 1 week before start of treatment; 1 week, 6 month, 1 year after end of treatment):<br>2.1. Nineteen selected questions addressing ability to perform all daily activity involving neck, shoulder, arm and hand from the DASH questionnaire

Secondary Outcome Measures