The Effect of Adding Auditory Information on Head Movements in People With Non-traumatic Neck Pain

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Healthy; Neck Pain
• Interventions: Device: Smartphone playing a sound

• Registration Number: NCT06028269
• Lead Sponsor: Aalborg University

Brief Summary

This study sets out to investigate the potential effect of auditory disturbances on human movement

Detailed Description

Clinicians routinely investigate/test human movement but if/how this is effect by auditory disturbances is unclear. This study sets out to investigate the impact of auditory disturbances on head movements.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2023-08
• Study First Submitted: 2023-08-22
• Study Start: 2023-08-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-08-31
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-08-31
• Study First Posted: 2023-09-08
• Last Update Posted: 2023-09-08
• Primary Completion: 2026-09-30
• Study Completion: 2026-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 44

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Sound 2	Smartphone playing a sound	A sound (different from Sound 1) will be played while moving the head
Sound 1	Smartphone playing a sound	A sound will be played while moving the head

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Range of motion	During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1	Range of motion will be assessed during head rotations (i.e. moving the head from a neutral position to end of range in rotation before returning to the start position)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Head repositioning accuracy	During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1	Head repositioning accuracy will be assessed as the error between the starting point and the end point following a head rotation (i.e. moving the head from a neutral position to end of range in rotation before returning to the start position) and will be repressed in degrees.
Quality of head movement	During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1	Quality of movement (smoothness) will be determined using calculations of jerk variance (Jerk is the time derivative of acceleration which will be measures using an inertial measurement unit. The measure will be converted to a unitless measure where higher values indicates less smooth movements), assessed during head rotations (i.e. moving the head from a neutral position to end of range in rotation before returning to the start position).
Perceived stiffness during movement	During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1	Participants will rate their perceived stiffness during head movement using a 0-100 numerical rating scale, where 0 = no stiffness and 100 = worst stiffness imaginable.
Perceived difficultness of performing movement	During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1	Participants will rate the Perceived difficultness of performing head movements using a 6-point Likert scale going from 0 = no problems, 1 = minimally difficult; 2 = somewhat difficult; 3 = fairly difficult; 4 = very difficult; 5 = unable to perform
Perceived neck pain intensity	During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1	Participants will rate ant potential pain during the session using a 0-11 numeric rating scale (NRS) with 0 = no pain and 10 = worst imaginable pain

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

FysioDanmark Aalborg; 🇩🇰 Aalborg, Denmark

Dept. Of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University; 🇩🇰 Gistrup, Denmark