NCT04545645

The Effect of Auditory and Motor Cognitive Distractions on the Neural Provocation Test in Subjects With Neck Pain

The Effect of Auditory and Motor Cognitive Distractions on the Neural Provocation Test in Subjects With Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main objective of this research is to evaluate the influence of different distraction stimuli on neural mechano-sensitivity tests.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	median nerve mobilization	The patient is placed in a supine position and his cervical spine with 25º of lateral flexion on the opposite side of the member in which we perform the test. First a passive scapular depression is performed, 90º of shoulder abduction combining external shoulder rotation. Next, a supination of the forearm is performed with wrist extension and finger extension. Finally, the elbow is extended to the limit of resistance or when the investigator observes the elevation of the shoulder girdle.
BEHAVIORAL	Neural stress provocation with cognitive auditory distraction	Neural provocation of the median nerve is performed but an auditory distraction is added with a metronome with a constant time of 50 beats per minute.
BEHAVIORAL	Providing neural stress with a motor distraction	The neural provocation of the median nerve is performed and we add a motor distraction that consists of the patient intermittently squeezing a ball with the opposite hand.
BEHAVIORAL	Neural stress provocation with auditory and motor cognitive distraction.	The neural provocation of the median nerve is performed, we add auditory distraction with the metronome with a constant time of 50 BPM and a motor distraction consisting of squeezing a ball to the rhythm that sounds the metronome.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-09-01
• Completion: 2020-09-01
• First posted: 2020-09-11
• Last updated: 2020-09-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain