The Effect of Muscular Endurance on Disability Level and Participation in Life

NCT ID: NCT05259358

Last Updated: 2025-05-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-01-06
• Study Completion Date: 2025-01-25

Brief Summary

Non-specific neck pain (NSBA), which is one of the most common causes of neck pain in the literature, occurs as a result of a postural or mechanical cause without a specific pathology or injury to the musculoskeletal system. NSBA causes an increase in superficial cervical muscle activity, and a decrease in deep cervical muscle activity, which contains a large amount of muscle spindles. Patients with chronic neck pain face functional limitations in many ways. Evaluation of disability as a result of loss of functions related to neck pain is necessary to cope with neck pain. In the ICF activity and participation section due to neck pain, it is stated that the daily life activities of the person are limited due to neck pain, both at work and at home, and with this, the level of disability of the person increases. Loss of endurance, on the other hand, appears as a physical marker in the development of chronic neck pain due to the effect of muscle functions in patients who have problems in the neck region, according to ICF.

Detailed Description

Patients with non-specific neck pain who volunteered to participate in the study and who met the inclusion criteria of the study will be included in the study after signing the voluntary consent form. First of all, the demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients will be questioned with the evaluation form. The personal information of the patients (gender, height, weight, smoking, etc.) and clinical status (pain type, pain intensity, muscle endurance measurements) will be recorded by the physiotherapist in the evaluation form. In addition to the evaluation form, the Northwick Park Neck Pain Questionnaire will evaluate the patients' neck disability, while the Keele Participation Evaluation will evaluate their level of participation in life.

Conditions

Neck Pain

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

exercise

In addition to routine treatment:

Postural evenness

Chin tuck exercise

Range of motion exercises for all angles of the cervical joint

Neck isometric exercises

Cervical stabilization exercises (with ball)

Stretching exercises of pectoralis, latissimus dorsi, trapezius upper part, levator scapula, rhomboid and scalene muscles

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

exercises that increase muscular endurance

routine

only routine treatment

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

exercise

exercises that increase muscular endurance

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Voluntary consent to participate in the study
• Clinical diagnosis of non spesific neck pain

Exclusion Criteria

• There is physical/mental problem that may prevent exercise

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Kırklareli University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Burcu Özüberk

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Mine A Deniz, PT, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Suleyman Demirel University

Locations

Suleyman Demirel University Education and Training Hospital

Isparta, East Campus, Turkey (Türkiye)

Suleyman Demirel University

Isparta, East Campus, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

72867572-050.01.04-95509

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id