NCT07339683

Influence of Cervical Stabilization Exercises on Neural Tissue Mechanosensitivity in Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 36 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

this study will be conducted to investigate the effect of cervical stabilization exercises on cervical pain intensity, upper limbs mechanosensitivity, cervicovertebral angle, and cervical proprioception in individuals with chronic nonspecific neck pain

Detailed description

Neck pain is the sensation of discomfort in the neck area. Neck pain can result from disorders of any of the structures in the neck, including the cervical vertebrae and intervertebral discs, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, esophagus, larynx, trachea, lymphatic organs, thyroid gland, or parathyroid glands.Forward head posture (FHP) is one of the commonly recognized types of poor head posture in the sagittal plane in patients with neck pain. FHP has been defined as 'any alignment in which the external auditory meatus is positioned anterior to the plumb line through the shoulder joint, with a general prevalence of about 64% in both males and females.Several studies reported the effect of cervical stabilization exercises on pain, ROM and cranio-cervical angle in patients with chronic non-specific neck pain. No studies have been concerned with measuring mechanosensitivity as an indicator technique of the effect of different modalities on chronic non-specific neck pain. With the proposal of the cervical and scapulothoracic stabilization program for patients with chronic non-specific neck pain secondary to forward head posture deviations.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	cervical and scapulothoracic stabilization exercises.	the patients will receive cervical and scapulothoracic stabilization exercises in the form of activation of deep cervical flexors in the first two weeks, followed by scapulothoracic muscles activation for the third and fourth weeks and finally group of exercises that emphasis on increasing difficulty and progress to quadruped and standing.
OTHER	traditional therapy	the patients will receive traditional therapy in the form of ultrasound, hot pack, cervical extensors stretching and deep flexor strengthening

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-15
• Primary completion: 2026-06-15
• Completion: 2026-06-25
• First posted: 2026-01-14
• Last updated: 2026-01-14