NCT01774734

Effect of Combined Neck Strength Exerciser Plus Physiotherapy to Treatment Chronic Neck Pain

Effect of Combined Neck Strength Exerciser Plus Physiotherapy in Treatment of Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

1. Chronic neck pain is common in general population. * High health care source expenditure * Multiple therapeutic approaches available with limited evidence * Previous studies showed active strengthening exercise improved pain (VAS) and functional performance (NDI) * Muscle strengthening exercise with biofeedback technique showed more long-lasting effect in patients with chronic neck pain 2. The investigators hypothesize that daily use of the neck strength exerciser (NSE), combined biofeedback technique with muscle strengthening exercise posture adjustment, in addition to traditional physiotherapy, could have more long-lasting and prominent effect on pain and functional improvement in patients with chronic neck pain.

Detailed description

1\. A randomized single-blinded trial to compare the effect of combined home-based NSE with physiotherapy could be more effective to treat people with chronic neck pain * The NSE is a simple equipment that is easy to learn and safe to apply as home-based program * The NSE will apply to the patients in the NSE group for 6 weeks, and we will compare the target variables to see if it brings better improvement by correction of maladaptive habitual posture and daily postural muscle exercise

Conditions

• Cervicalgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physical therapy	Physical therapy * Provided by 2 experienced physiotherapist * Applied to every patients 3 times weekly
DEVICE	Neck Strength Exerciser (NSE)	* Neck strength exerciser use 10-20 minutes daily at home * Plus traditional physical therapy three times weekly provided by two experienced physical therapist

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2013-01-24
• Last updated: 2014-11-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan