NCT04890743

Effectiveness of Various Electrotherapy Methods in Treating People With Cervical Spine Pain Syndrome.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Rzeszow · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Volunteers will take part in the study; Students of the university in the area of Rzeszow reporting chronic spinal ailments participation in remote learning. Applicant participants will be randomised into 3 groups of subjected to various electrotherapy procedures.

Detailed description

Study participants will be tested: 1. Before a series of electrotherapy treatments. 2. 7 to 10 days after the end of electrotherapy. 3. 3 months after the end of electrotherapy. The study will use 1. a self-authored survey taking into account: basic personal data (age, gender, value and BMI, lifestyle and degree of load on the cervical spine), information on the nature, intensity and frequency of the presence of pain in the spine cervical system, taking into account possible adverse reactions 2. a questionnaire for subcjective assessment of the state of the spine Neck Disability Index, 3. measuring the tone of the vertebral muscles in the cervical (myotonometer), 4. a visual analog scale used to assess the severity of symptoms (Visual Analog Scale -VAS) Intervention; <!-- --> 1. irradiation of the neck area with a sollux lamp with a blue filter 2. individual exercises conducted according to the prepared author's mobility improvement program 3. electrotherapy treatments: * Trabert currents * TENS currents (conventional) * TENS currents (pseudo-acupuncture)

Conditions

• Cervical Spine Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Convenctional TENS method).	One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Conventional TENS method).
OTHER	Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Pseudo-acupuncture TENS method).	One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Pseudo-acupuncture TENS method).
OTHER	Kinesiotherapy combined with electrotherapy (Trabert ultrastimulation method)	One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Trabert ultrastimulation method).
OTHER	Kinesiotherapy combined with placebo electrotherapy	One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and placebo electrotherapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-01
• Primary completion: 2022-11-30
• Completion: 2023-01-31
• First posted: 2021-05-18
• Last updated: 2022-06-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Poland