NCT06435364

Cervical Manual Therapy and Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Patients With Nonspecific Neck Pain

Investigation of the Effect of Instrument Supported Cervical Manual Therapy Methods and Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Patients With Nonspecific Neck Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul Medipol University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

People with chronic neck pain are becoming more and more common in society every day.

Detailed description

In chronic neck pain investigations, it is generally reported that all people experience neck pain once in my life and more than half of the developed societies experience this problem. It has been stated that 48% of these continue as chronic neck pain, which significantly affects the quality of life due to the postponement of treatment due to its cost.

Conditions

• Pain Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Vagus nerve stimilation	This non-invasive system is activated by the cutaneous distribution of vagus nerve afferents through the external ear. Somatosensory innervation is provided by the auricular branch.
OTHER	Manual therapy	Manual therapy is mostly defined by the tissue targeted by the practitioner; it can be joint biased, muscle and connective tissue biased and/or neurovascular system biased techniques.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-17
• Primary completion: 2024-06-15
• Completion: 2024-08-21
• First posted: 2024-05-30
• Last updated: 2024-10-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)