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Preventive Care of Chronic Cervical Pain and Disabilities

NCT ID: NCT00566930

Last Updated: 2012-09-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

117 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-10-31

Study Completion Date

2008-09-30

Brief Summary

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The aim of this study is to determine which of tertiary prevention spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) or a home exercise program is the more efficient approach to reduce pain and increase functional capacity, quality of life and general health condition. To do so, 60 participants with chronic cervical pain, will be recruited and divided into 3 groups according to the intervention they will receive: control group, experimental group 1 who will receive preventive chiropractic care in the form of spinal manipulations and experimental group 2 will have to perform an individualized home exercise program on a daily basis. We hypothesize that a group of patient receiving SMT + a home exercise program will present less pain and functional disabilities over a 1 year period. The innovative value of this project is mainly related to the fact that it will generate new and potentially very useful data concerning the clinical significance of preventive chiropractic care. Moreover, such data will be beneficial to our profession as chiropractic makes a step towards prevention, wellness and public health.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Neck Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

FACTORIAL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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1

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

2

spinal manipulation

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

spinal manipulation

Intervention Type OTHER

Monthly cervical spinal manipulation

3

Spinal manipulation + exercises

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Spinal manipulation + exercises

Intervention Type OTHER

Monthly cervical spine manipulation and daily home exercises

Interventions

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spinal manipulation

Monthly cervical spinal manipulation

Intervention Type OTHER

Spinal manipulation + exercises

Monthly cervical spine manipulation and daily home exercises

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adults between 18 and 60 years old from the city and the surrounding Trois-Rivières with chronic cervical pain of non-traumatic origin (chronic or recurrent cervical pain that lasted at least 6 months)

Exclusion Criteria

* Surgery to the cervical spine
* Neoplasms
* Severe osteoarthritis
* Ankylosing spondylitis
* Hypertension
* Referred pain in the cervical area
* Central or peripheric nervous system dysfunction
* Vascular disease
* Treated cardiovascular disease
* Inflammatory or infectious disease of the cervical spine
* Metabolic or endocrine diseases
* Pregnancy
* Specific rehabilitation training for the neck or already under manual therapy for neck pain
* Patient suffering from dizziness, vertigo or headache suspected to be cervicogenic or of unknown origin will not be involved in the study.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER)

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Martin Descarreaux

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Martin Descarreaux, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Locations

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Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Martel J, Dugas C, Dubois JD, Descarreaux M. A randomised controlled trial of preventive spinal manipulation with and without a home exercise program for patients with chronic neck pain. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2011 Feb 8;12:41. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-41.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 21303529 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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FCER Grant #06-03-02

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

Chronic cervical pain UQTR

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id