NCT04777890

Effects of Instrumental and Manipulative Techniques for the Suboccipital Region in Subjects With Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain

Effects of Instrumental, Manipulative and Soft Tissue Approaches for the Suboccipital Region in Subjects With Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain. A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Juan José Arjona Retamal · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare the effectiveness between the suboccipital inhibition technique, the suboccipital inhibition carried out with the INYBI instrument and the suboccipital inhibition with the INYBI plus the upper cervical manipulation, all in patients with chronic mechanic cervicalgia, and to determine which of these techniques is the most effective in the variables studied. In order to do so, 96 subjects participated in the study, being assigned to the 3 intervention groups. We expected the combined treatment (INYBI instrument + upper cervical manipulation) to be the one to produce the best results.

Conditions

• Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	suboccipital inhibition	The therapist will seat at the patient's head height and place his second, third, fourth and fifth fingertips'over the patient's suboccipital area during a 10-minute period.
OTHER	INYBI	The therapist will place the INYBI at the suboccipital area, specifically placing the fingers of the instrument at the lower border of the occipital. If needed, a rolled towel will be placed behind the INYBI, in order to maintain the physiological lordosis, checking out that the patient doesn't make a cervical extension. Then the therapist will press the vibration button and turn it off after 10 minutes. All patients will receive the treatment with the INYBI's hardest head with a 50 HZ frequency.
OTHER	INYBI + upper cervical manipulation	The participant will also be treated with the INYBI during a 10-minute period. After that, the therapist will carry out the upper cervical manipulation technique. Keeping the patient's head on an upper cervical flexion position, the therapist will turn his/her head to the maximum possible rotation, always maintaining its longitudinal axis. Once this is done, a high velocity and short articular amplitude manipulation in rotation will be carried out

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-20
• Primary completion: 2021-06-07
• Completion: 2021-06-07
• First posted: 2021-03-02
• Last updated: 2021-06-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain