NCT02827994

Pain Neurophysiology Education and Exercise for Adolescents With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain

Pain Neurophysiology Education and Exercise for Adolescents With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain: a School-based Pilot, Randomised and Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 43 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aveiro University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study compared the effectiveness of pain neurophysiology education and neck/shoulder exercises with no intervention in adolescents with chronic idiopathic neck pain (CINP).

Detailed description

Forty three adolescents with chronic idiopathic neck pain were randomly allocated to receive pain neurophysiology education and shoulder/neck exercises (n=21) or no intervention (n=22). Data on pain intensity (Visual Analogue Scale), pain disability, neck flexor and extensor muscles endurance, scapulae stabilizers endurance, pain catastrophizing (Pain catastrophizing Scale), trait and state anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) and knowledge of pain neurophysiology (Neurophysiology of Pain Questionnaire) were collected. Measurements were taken before and after the intervention. Statistical analysis were performed using a mixed-methods ANOVA.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	neurophysiology of pain education and exercises	Pain neurophysiology education covered the neurophysiology of pain, transition from acute to chronic pain and the nervous system ability to modulate the pain experience. It was delivered in small groups (4 to 7 participants). A total of 4 sessions were delivered over 4 weeks (1 session per week). Each session took between 45 minutes and 1 hour. Exercises were aimed at increasing the endurance and strength of the deep neck flexor and extensor muscles and of the scapular muscles delivered over 3 sessions (the first session covered pain neurophysiology education only). Each exercise was performed in 3 series of 10 repetitions. The number of exercises targeting the same group of muscles increased from one in the 2nd session to 2/3 in the 4th session.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-06-01
• First posted: 2016-07-11
• Last updated: 2016-07-11