Effectiveness of Massage Therapy With Active Component and Therapeutic Exercise in Cervical Pain

NCT ID: NCT04856813

Last Updated: 2022-11-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 42 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-08-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-07-09

Brief Summary

It is an interventional study that proves the eficacy of the manual therapy with active manual therapy and combined with exercise in cervical pain.

Detailed Description

The study will be divided in two different groups:

• A control group (group A) : they will receive a treatment with manual therapy and physical exercise.
• An experimental group (group B) : they will receive the previous treatment, but also the pacient's do active muscle active contraction.

The exercise is compound by a home program of several exercises with diferent difficulties.

The contraction will consist on a combination of concentric and isometric work. being the patient's pain threshold the one that will guide us to the choice of the predominance of concentric or isometric contraction . Both groups will be joined by a five-minute work on pain education.

Conditions

Neck Pain; Chronic Pain

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

active

this is the group that does a treatment with active movement, a program of pain education and a program of home exercise.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Manual therapy active

Intervention Type: OTHER

massage or ischemic compression with active contraction, tha will be isometric or concentric.

non active

this is the group that does a treatment without active movement, a program of pain education and a program of home exercise.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Manual therapy

Intervention Type: OTHER

massage or isquemic compression without contraction

Interventions

Manual therapy active

massage or ischemic compression with active contraction, tha will be isometric or concentric.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Manual therapy

massage or isquemic compression without contraction

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• accept to participate in the study, through informed consent
• subjects with chronic nonspecific neck pain lasting equal to or more than 3 months

Exclusion Criteria

• Present neck pain caused by serious pathology such as: inflammatory, congenital, infectious, metabolic and neoplastic diseases.
• Cervical pathology of traumatic origin with less than 6 months of evolution.
• Rheumatic diseases.
• Neck pain with neurological signs such as: radiculopathy and myelopathy.
• Previous surgery of the cervical spine.
• Pregnancy.
• Have received physiotherapeutic treatment in the cervical region during the month prior to the inclusion of the study.
• Have the intention of receiving other physiotherapeutic treatments different from the one proposed during the study period.
• Present serious mental disorders.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Alexander Achalandabaso

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Alexander Achalandabaso

Physiotherapy doctor

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Alexander Achalandabaso

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University of Jaen

Locations

Alexander achalandabaso

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

CEIM/HU/2020/5/055

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id