Sensorimotor Dysfunction of Individuals With Neck Pain

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2005-07-31

Study Completion Date

2006-07-31

Brief Summary

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Systematically assessing the proprioception-coordination capacity of the spine in patients with different severity of neck disability could reveal how the dysfunction of the sensory-motor system was progressed. From the result of the research, a prospective study would be designed to test the hypotheses that described the mechanism of neck pain based on the results to the present study.

Detailed Description

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The purposes of this research were to investigate the effect of age and chronic neck pain on cervical proprioception, the change of ultrasonographic (USD) patterns in deep neck muscle and superficial neck muscles. The hypotheses of this research included: 1) the alteration of neck proprioception is determined predominantly by the changed activation deep neck muscles and superficial neck muscles. 2) Age factor contributes to the alteration of cervicocephalic sensibility, USD pattern of deep and superficial muscles. 3) Chronic pain contributes to the alteration of cervicocephalic sensibility, USD pattern of deep and superficial muscles.

Neck proprioception is measured by an ultrasound-based coordinate measuring system (CMS 70P, Zebris, Germany) by asking the subjects to performed head repositioning to the neutral head position or to a target position in three cardinal plane. These repositioning error expressed in root mean square errors could represent the craniocervical kinesthetic sensibility. The change of muscle thickness (mm) of the superficial (Trapezium, Splenius) and deep (semispinalis cervicis and multifidus) dorsal neck muscle is measured by a real-time ultrasonographic scanner (HDI 5000, ATL Ultrasound, USA). Image is obtained for each cervical level, and the thickness of the muscle is identified manually using a custom-written C++ computer graphic program. The measurements of pain intensity and pain frequency are modified from the symptoms questionnaire to indicate the intensity, location, frequency and duration of pain and disability of the subjects. The age and pain effects for each independent variables measured in patients with chronic neck pain (pain: intensity, location, frequency, and duration, NDI), will be tested with the General Linear Model (GLM; age and pain factors). The confounding factors such as gender, range of motion, body height and weight are controlled in the regression model.

Conditions

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Posterior Neck Pain

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

DEFINED_POPULATION

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* posterior neck pain with duration over 3 months

Exclusion Criteria

* surgery on cervical spine
* achilosing spondylitis
* diabetes mellitus
* traumatic injury directly over head and neck area
* progressing neurological disease

Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

50 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Principal Investigators

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Shwu-fen Wang, PT Phd

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

National Taiwan University Hospital

Locations

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School and Graduate Institution of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine,Nnational Taiwan University

Taipei, , Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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Shwu-Fen Wang, PT Phd

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 886-2-23123456

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Shwu-Fen Wang, PT, Phd

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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9361701250

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id