NCT02222051

Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain

Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 114 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universität Duisburg-Essen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In this study the efficacy of Tai Chi will be tested in comparison to conventional neck exercises and usual care in a randomized controlled trial. Tai Chi and neck exercises will be lead by a trained exercise therapist and Tai Chi instructor, both groups receive 12 weeks of training, once weekly for 60-90 min in a group setting. Pain, Disability, quality of life, wellbeing, stress perception, psychological distress will be used to determine effects.

Detailed description

see above

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tai Chi	traditional chinese martial art meditative movement technique
BEHAVIORAL	Neck exercises	group exercises for strengthening and stretching neck and back muslces to alleviate neck pain

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-08-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2014-08-21
• Last updated: 2018-05-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany