Effects of an Active Program in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Changes in number of active trigger points
研究概览
简要总结
Neck pain is a complex biopsychosocial disorder often precipitated or aggravated by neck movements or sustained neck postures. More than 80 % of individuals experience neck pain and neck associated disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 4-week active exercising program in patients with chronic neck pain.
详细描述
While neck pain can be severely disabling and costly, treatment options have shown moderate evidence of effectiveness. The optimal physiotherapy intervention is currently unclear. Consequently, more research in this area combining different techniques in patients with a specific clinical profile is needed. It has been previously shown that participants prefer self-care measures for the management of neck pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 4-week active exercising program in patients with chronic neck pain.
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 (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •To suffer from chronic neck pain (at least 3 months' duration)
- •Neck pain of at least 3 on a visual analogue scale.
- •Participants' symptoms should be at least partly related to increased nerve mechanosensitivity in the neck and upper limb confirmed by the reproduction of participants' symptoms by median nerve upper-limb neurodynamic test.
排除标准
- •Whiplash related neck pain.
- •Previous cervical surgical intervention.
- •Cognitive impairments which prevent them to follow instructions.
- •Visual or acoustic limitations.
研究组 & 干预措施
Active intervention
Patients will be included in an active intervention.
干预措施: Active exercising (Other)
Control group
Patients in the control group will not receive any intervention
结局指标
主要结局
Changes in number of active trigger points
时间窗: Changes from baseline to 4 weeks in the number of active trigger points assessed by palpation. The percentage of active trigger points is obtained.
Baseline, 4 weeks
次要结局
- Severity of pain(Changes from baseline to 4 weeks in the severity of pain assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory. The severity and the interference of pain with daily life subscales were included. Score is the sum of the items divided by the number of items.)
- Functionality(Changes from baseline to 4 weeks on functionality assessed using the Neck Outcome Score.Symptoms, sleep disturbance, every day activity and pain and participation in everyday life subscales were included. They Ranged from 0 to 100 (no simptoms).)
研究者
Marie Carmen Valenza
Principal Investigator
Universidad de Granada