NCT03223285

Diaphragm's Manual Therapy in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

Diaphragm's Manual Therapy Reduce Pain in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain: a Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Università degli Studi di Ferrara · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of diaphragm's manual therapy in addition to cervical spine manual therapy in terms of pain, cervical spine range of motion, trigger points pain pressure threshold, disability and quality of life in patient with chronic aspecific neck pain.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Real Treatment Group	Real Diaphragm manoeuvres The experimental manoeuvres include the Doming The Diaphragm Technique as described by Digiovanna (2004), Chila (2011) and Yao (2014) and the Manual Diaphragm Release Technique as described by Ricard (2009), De Coster (2005) and Roha (2015). Both manoeuvres are performed in two sets of 10 repetitions, within a 1-minute interval. Multifaced physiotherapy/osteopathic treatment includes: vertebral mobilisations (C0-D1), high-velocity low-amplitude (HVLA) thrusts of the cervical spine, soft tissue techniques
BEHAVIORAL	Sham Treatment Group	Sham Diaphragm manoeuvre: the physiotherapist will simply lie hands on the rib cage, and rest along the anterolateral costal margin below rib 7, during normal breathing of the patient for 40 breathes. Multifaced physiotherapy/osteopathic treatment includes: vertebral mobilisations (C0-D1), high-velocity low-amplitude (HVLA) thrusts of the cervical spine, soft tissue techniques

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-16
• Primary completion: 2018-05-16
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2017-07-21
• Last updated: 2019-05-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy