Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT07324811
Effectiveness of a Home-based Cervical Motor Control Exercise Programme Versus Conventional Manual Therapy in Patients With Post-whiplash Neck Pain.
Effectiveness of a Home-based Cervical Motor Control Exercise Programme Versus Conventional Manual Therapy in Patients With Post-whiplash Neck Pain: a Randomised Clinical Trial.
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Whiplash-associated disorders are a common cause of persistent neck pain following traffic accidents and are frequently associated with impairments in cervical motor control, pain, and functional disability. Therapeutic exercise aimed at restoring cervical motor control has shown promising results; however, evidence regarding the effectiveness of structured home-based exercise programs compared with conventional physiotherapy remains limited. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a home-based cervical motor control exercise program versus conventional physiotherapy in patients with whiplash-associated neck pain. A randomized controlled trial with two parallel groups was conducted. Patients diagnosed with whiplash-associated neck pain were randomly assigned to either an experimental group performing a structured home-based cervical motor control exercise program or a control group receiving conventional physiotherapy based on manual therapy and cervical mobilization techniques. Outcome measures included pain intensity assessed using the Visual Analogue Scale, functional disability measured with the Neck Disability Index, and active cervical range of motion. Assessments were performed at baseline and after an eight-week intervention period.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | home-based cervical motor control exercise programme | home-based programme of active cervical motor control exercises supervised by physiotherapists |
| PROCEDURE | conventional physiotherapy treatment | Conventional physiotherapy treatment with passive therapy (manual therapy) carried out in a physiotherapy clinic. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2025-01-10
- Primary completion
- 2025-04-10
- Completion
- 2025-09-10
- First posted
- 2026-01-08
- Last updated
- 2026-01-08
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Spain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT07324811. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.