NCT02033460

Manual Therapy Versus Manual Therapy and Exercise and Education in Chronic Neck Pain

Manual Therapy vs Manual Therapy and Exercise vs Manual Therapy and Exercise and Education in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Josue Fernandez Carnero · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to know which combination of treatments are the most effective in patients with non-specific neck pain. Study design: This is a single-blind randomized controlled trial. (outcomes assessor). Study population: Men and women aged 18 to 60 years old with neck pain for at least 12 weeks. Interventions: 3 groups will be treated for a period of 4 weeks (8 sessions total; 2 per week).

Detailed description

Nonspecific chronic neck pain has a high prevalence and is very common in clinical practice. Manual therapy (MT) studies of techniques like mobilization, manipulation, and therapeutic exercise, has been demonstrated effectiveness for the treatment of pain and disability in the neck. These investigations have thought of this treatments as individual interventions. Thus, multimodal ways of treatment to improve patients with nonspecific chronic neck pain are necessary. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a multimodal treatment protocol compared to a unimodal treatment protocol in the medium-term, on patients with chronic non-specific neck pain. Subjects are randomly allocated into three groups: MT group; MT+Educational therapy (ET) group; and MT+ET+Exercise group. Each subject receive a 4 weeks period treatment (8 sessions). Outcome measures include physical, somatosensory, and psychosocial characteristics; which are measure at 0, 4, 8, 16 weeks by a blinded assessor.

Conditions

• Neck Pains
• Posterior Cervical Pains
• Posterior Neck Pain
• Cervicalgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Manual Therapy and Education	Manual therapy will consist on Traction oscillatory,craniocervical region, Mobilization of upper cervical region in flexion, Side glide roll, Mobilization upper cervical anteroposterior with Wedge, Sliding lateral techniques and High-velocity technique in dorsal region. And Education of the physiology of pain and Education about cognitive behavioral perspective will add to manual therapy treatment.
OTHER	Manual Therapy	Manual therapy will consist on Traction oscillatory, Maintained traction in the craniocervical region, Mobilization of upper cervical region in flexion, Side glide roll, Mobilization upper cervical anteroposterior with Wedge, Sliding lateral C1- C2 ( 2 minutes) , C2 -C3, and C5 -C6 and High-velocity technique in dorsal region.
OTHER	Manual therapy, Education and Exercise	Manual therapy will consist on Traction oscillatory,craniocervical region, Mobilization of upper cervical region in flexion, Side glide roll, Mobilization upper cervical anteroposterior with Wedge, Sliding lateral techniques and High-velocity technique in dorsal region. And Education of the physiology of pain and Education about cognitive behavioral perspective and Craniocervical exercise will add to this arm.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-11-01
• Completion: 2013-11-01
• First posted: 2014-01-10
• Last updated: 2014-01-13