NCT04856813

Effectiveness of Massage Therapy With Active Component and Therapeutic Exercise in Cervical Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Alexander Achalandabaso · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It is an interventional study that proves the eficacy of the manual therapy with active manual therapy and combined with exercise in cervical pain.

Detailed description

The study will be divided in two different groups: * A control group (group A) : they will receive a treatment with manual therapy and physical exercise. * An experimental group (group B) : they will receive the previous treatment, but also the pacient's do active muscle active contraction. The exercise is compound by a home program of several exercises with diferent difficulties. The contraction will consist on a combination of concentric and isometric work. being the patient's pain threshold the one that will guide us to the choice of the predominance of concentric or isometric contraction . Both groups will be joined by a five-minute work on pain education.

Conditions

• Neck Pain
• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Manual therapy active	massage or ischemic compression with active contraction, tha will be isometric or concentric.
OTHER	Manual therapy	massage or isquemic compression without contraction

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-01
• Primary completion: 2021-12-09
• Completion: 2022-07-09
• First posted: 2021-04-23
• Last updated: 2022-11-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain