NCT05733429

Eye-Cervical Re-education Versus Motor Imagery Therapy on Proprioception in Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain

Eye-Cervical Re-education Versus Motor Imagery Therapy on Pain, Function, and Proprioception in Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

this study will be conducted to investigate the effect of eye-cervical re-education versus motor imagery therapy on pain intensity level, pain pressure threshold, neck disability, cervical proprioception, and scapular protraction in patients with chronic mechanical neck pain.

Detailed description

Chronic neck pain is a common problem in modern and industrialized countries and among employed individuals. Pain is classified as chronic neck pain persists for more than 3 month, it may be felt all the time or worsen with certain activities. The cervical spine has an important role in providing the proprioceptive input and this is reflected in the abundance of cervical mechanoreceptors and their central and reflex connections to the vestibular, visual, and central nervous systems. Eye-cervical re-education program (ECRP) refer to a therapeutic procedure for correcting posture cephalic level in patients with cervical pain by improving eye-neck proprioception that reduced symptoms experienced by patients and improvement of the quality of cervical afferent input into the central nervous system. Motor imagery is the mental realization of motion without any motion occurs. It has two categories: kinesthetics and visual imagery. Kinaesthetic imagery is the situation of feeling a motion. Visual imagery has two types: internal visual and external visual. In the internal visual imagery, the motion is visualized within the body by seeing feet and arms. The external visual imagery is that one sees himself/herself from outside. one hundred and twenty patients will be allocated randomly into three groups; group A will receive eye cervical re-education and conventional therapy, group B will receive motor imagery therapy and conventional therapy and group C will receive conventional therapy only three times a week for four weeks.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	eye cervical re-education	patients will receive eye-cervical re-education in the form of 10 exercises at three phases; the first phase will include stimulation of ocular mobility, the second phase will consist of Cervical mobility exercise with restricted eye movement and the third phase will include stimulation of eye and neck movement co-ordination
OTHER	motor imagery therapy	the patients will receive motor imagery therapy for four weeks; the first week will receive kinesthetic imagery, the second week will receive visual imagery, the third week will receive action observation exercises with motor imagery and the fourth week will receive motor control exercises in front of a mirror.
OTHER	conventional physical therapy	the patients will receive conventional physical therapy programs in the form of hot packs, therapeutic massage, cervical isometric strengthening exercises, and scapular stabilization exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-02
• Primary completion: 2023-10-30
• Completion: 2023-10-30
• First posted: 2023-02-17
• Last updated: 2023-02-17