Treatment of Patients With Neck Pain After a Commuting Accident

NCT ID: NCT06938828

Last Updated: 2025-05-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 204 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-04-22
• Study Completion Date: 2025-05-15

Brief Summary

Introduction. Neck pain is one of the main causes of incapacity for work. The economic impact of neck pain is considerable due to the cost of medical treatment and physiotherapy. Accidents in itinere, those that occur on the way between home and the workplace, can cause pain and functional impairment.

Objective. To analyze the relationship between the time off work following accidents on the way to and from work and the type of treatment received.

Material and method. Multicenter retrospective cohort study. Data will be collected from 146 patients. The primary variable of the study will be the time on sick leave (in days), with the type of intervention received (manual therapy or not) being the dependent variable. The secondary variables, estimated as modifying or confounding, will be the intensity of the pain (visual analog scale), sex, age, occupational cervical strain, type of contract (salaried/self-employed) and the number of physiotherapy sessions received.

Conditions

Cervical Injury Spine

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

Observational group

Data will be collected from medical records of a mutual insurance company that collaborates with the Social Security. The data will be from patients of both sexes with a medical diagnosis of neck pain secondary to traffic accidents while commuting and without a medical diagnosis of associated traffic pathology, between the years 2022 and 2024. The patients had received a physiotherapy intervention with and without manual therapy.

Observational cohort group

Intervention Type: OTHER

As this is an observational cohort study, there will be no intervention. In this study, only retrospective data will be collected for subsequent analysis. Similarly, the aim is to assess the relationship between the time on sick leave and the type of physiotherapy treatment received by patients. As this is an observational and retrospective cohort study, there is no risk derived from the development of the study for the subjects whose data form part of the study.

Interventions

Observational cohort group

As this is an observational cohort study, there will be no intervention. In this study, only retrospective data will be collected for subsequent analysis. Similarly, the aim is to assess the relationship between the time on sick leave and the type of physiotherapy treatment received by patients. As this is an observational and retrospective cohort study, there is no risk derived from the development of the study for the subjects whose data form part of the study.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients of both sexes
• Persons aged 18 to 65
• Patients with a medical diagnosis of neck pain secondary to traffic accidents while commuting
• Persons without a medical diagnosis of another associated pathology
• Patients whose accident occurred between 2022 and 2024.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who have received physiotherapy treatment at another centre during the process
• Patients who requested voluntary discharge for whatever reason.

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

Sponsors

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, PhD

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

Itinere

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id