NCT05078489

Acute Effects of Action Observation on Neck Pain

Acute Effects of Action Observation on Pain Intensity, Muscle Strength, Tactile Acuity and Pressure Pain Threshold.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aveiro University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Months – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to assess the immediate effects of action observation therapy on the cervical muscles' strength, pain intensity, tactile acuity and pain pressure threshold in individuals with chronic nonspecific neck pain.

Detailed description

This study is a randomized controlled trial with two arms: action observation group vs control group. The action observation group will be asked to watch videos of neck exercises with full attention and concentration and not perform any motion or execute any movement during the observation time. The control group will be asked to watch videos of a landscape. Participants will be assessed at baseline and at post-intervention for muscle strength, pain intensity, pressure pain threshold and tactile acuity.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Action-observation therapy	Action observation therapy involves the observation and perception of human movement performed by others. The observation of actions performed by others activates in the perceiver the same neural structures responsible for the actual execution of those same actions.
OTHER	Placebo	Participants will watch a natural landscape without any human.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-20
• Primary completion: 2022-10-30
• Completion: 2023-02-15
• First posted: 2021-10-14
• Last updated: 2023-02-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal