NCT03933267

Cervical Sensorimotor Control Training in Chronic Neck Pain

Effects of Cervical Sensorimotor Control Training in Nonspecific Chronic Neck Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Impaired cervical joint position sense is associated with neck pain. This study will determine the effects of sensorimotor control training exercises on cervical joint position, pain, ROM and function in nonspecific chronic neck pain. There will be two groups ; experimental and control. Half of study group will receive cervical sensorimotor control training exercises and half of study group will receive conventional physiotherapy protocol.

Detailed description

The study is Randomized Control Trail , which is being conducted in physical therapy Out patient department of Pakistan Railway hospital (April 2019-July 2019) . Sample size of 18 individual was calculated using Epitool with 95% confidence interval (CI), and power 80%. Individual will be screened out according to inclusion criteria. Individuals will be allocated randomly into two groups , 9 in cervical Sensori-motor training group and 9 in conventional physiotherapy protocol group by sealed envelope method. Both groups will receive conventional physiotherapy protocol (hot pack, stretching exercises and strengthening exercises) for neck pain in common and the experimental group will receive cervical sensorimotor control training in addition to conventional protocol. Assessment will be done on baseline and 6th week. Data will be analysed on SPSS version 21.

Conditions

• Nonspecific Chronic Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cervical sensorimotor control training exercises	Cervical sensory motor training exercises consisting of cervical position sense and cervical movement sense exercises with 3 levels of difficulty and 5 repetitions \* 3 sets for each exercise will be given. Some exercises are: Head relocation with laser feedback: head relocation to neutral and predetermined position with eyes opened (in horizontal / vertical direction) (5 reps x 3 sets) Head relocation to neutral, predetermined and to specific targets with eyes opened (in diagonal directions) (5 reps x 3 sets) Head relocation to neutral and predetermined position with eyes closed (in all directions)(5 reps x 3 sets) In addition to it conventional physical therapy protocol consisting of Generalized stretching and cervical strengthening exercises along with joint mobility.
OTHER	Conventional Exercises	conventional physical therapy protocol consisting of Generalized stretching and cervical strengthening exercises along with joint mobility exercises will be given to patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-25
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2019-05-01
• Last updated: 2019-08-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan