[en] Background. Cervical chronic pain is a pathology that affects a large number of people worldwide, from adults of working age to young students. It is a public health problem that entails an enormous expense both in the care of each case and in the decrease in the productivity of those who suffer from it. Regarding treatment, it has been seen that the Physiotherapy modality that presents the greatest efficacy is therapeutic exercise. The authors have proposed a large number of training protocols focused on solving a problem as common as cervical chronic pain, however, despite the good results that all of them usually give, there is no consensus on which one should be used. Objetive. To compare the efficacy of two therapeutic exercise programs in reducing musculoskeletal cervicobrachial chronic pain in a population of Physiotherapy students. Methods. We propose to carry out a randomized, analytical, longitudinal, prospective and simple-blind clinical trial. The intervention will be carried out with 54 patients divided into two groups, a control group (27 people) and an experimental group (27 people). The experimental group will receive treatment based on an exercise protocol for the deep cervical muscles combined with another exercise protocol for the temporomandibular joint. The control group will only receive treatment based on the exercise protocol for deep cervical muscles. The variables to be measured are cervical pain, craniocervical angle, degree of mouth opening, and changes in the symptoms of the temporomandibular complex. The intervention will last 8 weeks, with 2 sessions per week, and the variables will be measured three times. In the analysis of the results, the normality and homogeneity of the data will be determined through the ShapiroWilk Test. For the comparasion of the means, a t-Student or a Wilcoxon test will be carried out. A significance level of p ≤ 0.05 will be taken as reference.

[gl] Introdución. A dor cervical crónica é una patoloxía que afecta a un gran número de persoas en todo o mundo, dende adultos en idade laboral ata estudantes mozos. Trátase dun problema de saúde pública que implica un enorme gasto tanto na atención de cada caso como na diminución da produtividade de quen o padece. En canto ó tratamento, viuse que dentro da Fisioterapia a modalidade que presenta maior eficacia é o exercicio terapéutico. Os autores propuxeron unha gran cantidade de protocolos de adestramento enfocados a solucionar un problema tan común como é a dor cervical crónica, porén, a pesar dos bos resultados que adoitan dar, non existe un consenso sobre cal é o que se debería utilizar. Obxectivo. Comparar a eficacia de dous programas de exercicio terapéutico na redución da dor cérvicobraquial crónica de orixe músculo-esquelética nunha poboación de estudantes de fisioterapia. Material e método. Plantéxase a realización dun ensaio clínico aleatorizado de tipo analítico, lonxitudinal, prospectivo e simple-cego. A intervención levarase a cabo con 54 pacientes divididos en dous grupos; un grupo control (27 persoas) e un grupo experimental (27 persoas). O grupo experimental recibirá un tratamento baseado nun protocolo de exercicios para a musculatura cervical profunda combinado con outro protocolo de exercicios para a articulación temporomandibular. O grupo control recibirá unicamente o tratamiento baseado no protocolo de exercicios para la musculatura cervical profunda. As variables que se medirán son a dor cervical, o ángulo cráneo-cervical, o grao de apertura da boca e os cambios na sintomatoloxía do complexo temporomandibular. A intervención terá unha duración de 8 semanas, con 2 sesións por semana, e as variables mediranse en tres ocasións.