Comparison Of Mackenzie Exercise Program Versus Routine Physical Therapy Management in Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain
Condition: Neck Pain
MeSH terms: Neck Pain
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Study will be a Randomized clinical trial to check comparison of mckenzie exercise program
      versus routine physical therapy management on pain, range of motion and function in patients
      with chronic neck pain so that we can devise a treatment protocol.Total fifty subjects will
      be included in this study .Out of total 25 will be randomly allocated via lottery method in
      group 1 and 25 will be allocated in group 2. Group 1 will receive mckenzie exercise program
      and routine physical therapy(Joint mobilization, hot pack for 15 minutes and home exercise
      program) while Group 2 will receive only routine physical therapy (Joint mobilization , hot
      pack for 15 min and home exercise program). All patients will be treated for 12 sessions, two
      sessions per week for 6 weeks. Neck pain and disability index consist of two parts, part one
      which assesses pain severity and part two which assesses functional disability. Study setting
      will be services hospital. Assesment will be done at 0 week, 4week, 8week and 12weeks. Data
      was analysed by using SPSS version 26.
    

Detailed description: 
      Neck pain is a key public health issue that affects the human beings with reduction
      productivity and quality of life and produced significant socioeconomic burden on society.The
      purpose of this study to determine the effectiveness of Mckenzie exercise program and routine
      physical therapy management on pain range of motion and function in patient with chronic
      mechanical neck pain. Patients of both gender, neck pain for at least 3 months and age 25-55
      years will be included. Patients having history of trauma, vertebral fracture, congenital
      disorder, ankylosing spondylitis, tumour, pott's disease and any bony or soft tissue
      systematic disease will be excluded. The main objective of this study is to evaluate pain
      level and effect of Mackenzie protocol for individuals suffering from chronic neck pain.

      The tools used will be Neck disability index score (NDI), Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)
      and Goniometer for outcome measure pain, range of motion and function. Study will be
      conducted into 2 groups, each group will have 12 patients and comparisons of two groups will
      be evaluated. One group will receive Mckenzie exercise program and Routine physical therapy
      (Joint Mobilization, Hot pack and home exercise program) for 12 weeks and 2 days a week for
      40 min each session and other group will receive Routine physical therapy (Joint
      mobilization, Hot pack and home exercise plan) for 12 weeks and 2 days a week for 30 min each
      session. Assessment will be done at 0 weeks, 4 week, 8 week and 12 week.Both groups received
      hot packs for 15 minutes for warming up.
    

Intervention name(s): Mckenzie exercise program; Conventional Physical therapy
Intervention type(s): Other; Other
Intervention description(s): MacKenzie extension exercise program for cervical spine; hot pack for 15 minutes will be given followed by joint mobilization,and home exercise program.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary purpose: Prevention