NCT03861312

Laterality Discrimination in Patients With Non-specific Chronic Neck Pain

Effects of Laterality Discrimination in Patients With Non-specific Chronic Neck Pain. Randomized Blind Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centro Universitario La Salle · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic neck pain is one of the most common causes of pain, affecting 15% of the adult population, and the fourth leading cause of disability. The recognition of laterality is the ability to recognize a part of the body that belongs to the left or right which is used as a tool to create a normal process of motor planning.

Detailed description

The most consistent data come from the investigation of the primary motor cortex, in which the cortical representations of the altered body part are affected when there is chronic pain. Occasionally, the primary motor cortex is smaller on the affected side than on the contralateral side. Recognition of the body schema is altered in the presence of painful disorders. The most common way of assessing the body schema is by motor imagery through the laterality discrimination of the left and right.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Neck Laterality	Patients who belonged to the neck group performed the recognition of laterality with certain parameters. The execution of the recognition began with a test to familiarize themselves with the program at the "Basic" level and then followed the laterality test. It was done with 20 images and 4 seconds for each image in the "Vanilla" program
BEHAVIORAL	Foot Laterality	Patients who belonged to the foot group performed the recognition of laterality with certain parameters. The execution of the recognition began with a test to familiarize themselves with the program at the "Basic" level and then followed the laterality test. It was done with 20 images and 4 seconds for each image in the "Vanilla" program

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-05-01
• Completion: 2017-09-01
• First posted: 2019-03-04
• Last updated: 2019-03-04