NCT04402463

Effects of Global Postural Exercises Versus Specific Therapeutic Neck Exercises in Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain

Effects of Global Postural Exercises Versus Specific Therapeutic Neck Exercises on Pain, Disability, Postural Control, and Neuromuscular Efficiency in Women With Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Salamanca · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a randomized, parallel, blinded, clinical trial of treatments. The general objective of this study is to analyze and compare the short-term results, during a 4-week follow-up, of two different treatments in patients with chronic nonspecific neck pain. The treatments to be applied are Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) and specific therapeutic exercise, applied during 8 treatment sessions in 4 weeks. These treatments will be applied by a physiotherapist with clinical experience in the treatment of cervical pain. During the study, 4 evaluations will be carried out to assess the effects of the interventions on pain, disability, standing postural control and neuromuscular behavior of the cervical muscles ((1) Baseline (pre-intervention); 2) Second pre-intervention (1 week later); 3) 1st post-intervention after four sessions (1+2 weeks later); 4) Final, 2nd post-intervention (1+4 weeks later))

Conditions

• Neck Pain
• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Global Postural Reeducation	The participants will receive treatment along 4 weeks, 2 sessions per week, and 40-45 minutes each session. In the treatment 3 of the therapeutic postures of GPR method to will carry out following Souchard's principles of "Global Postural Reeducation"
OTHER	Exercise Therapeutic	The participants will receive treatment along 4 weeks, 2 sessions per week, and 40-45 minutes each session. The treatment will be divided into 3 phases, where it initially starts with phase 1 (3 treatments) and progresses to phase 2 (3 treatments) until reaching stage 3 (2 treatments).

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-01
• Primary completion: 2021-10-14
• Completion: 2021-10-14
• First posted: 2020-05-26
• Last updated: 2021-11-02

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: Portugal, Spain