NCT03509649

Impact of Practitioner and Instructional Set on Subject Perceptions and Expectations of Cervical Spine Manipulation

The Impact of Practitioner and Instructional Set on Subject Expectations of Cervical Spine Manipulation

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Determine effects of perceptions and expectations on experience of cervical spine manipulation

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to better understand how therapists may affect a patient's thoughts/ beliefs/ opinions on cervical spine (neck) manipulation. Current evidence suggests that patients who have a positive expectation about neck manipulation are more likely to report benefit from it, and we wish to determine if the perceived experience level of the therapist and the words they use to describe neck manipulation will affect the patient's perception.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Cervical spine manipulation	High-velocity low-amplitude thrust joint manipulation to the cervical spine

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-01
• Primary completion: 2019-05-17
• Completion: 2019-05-17
• First posted: 2018-04-26
• Last updated: 2019-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States