Clinical trial NCT05509491: Effectiveness of A Telehealth Postural Awareness Program Combined With Exercise In People With Neck Pain
Official title: Postural Awareness Program With Exercises In Patients With Neck Pain
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Neck Pain
Keywords: neck pain
neck
telehealth
awareness
posture
exercise
Lead sponsor: Hacettepe University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi
First posted: 2022-08-22
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: 12-week physiotherapist delivered a postural awareness program with exercises
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: People with neck pain often experience pain, neck disability, and poor quality of life. Postural-based awareness programs are evidence-based interventions for postural problems and neck pain disorders. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a telehealth physiotherapist-delivered postural awareness program combined with exercise in people with neck pain. Pain, neck disability, leisure time management, and exercise stage of change were evaluated.

Detailed description: Pain with visual analog scale, neck disability with Neck Disability Index, Leisure time management with Leisure Time Management Scale, and exercise stage of change with exercise Stage of change Scale were determined. The authors aim to find out if there are any changes before and after the program on the pain, neck disability, and evaluation subscale of the leisure time management scale, and exercise stage of change of participants.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* being aged 18 years or over,
* volunteering to take part in the study,
* being a student of online education,
* without a history of any neurological or orthopedic problem,
* with resting neck pain (as measured by the VAS) lasting ≤30 days
* that is aggravated by movement without extending distal to the shoulders.

Exclusion Criteria:

* rheumatological diseases, malignity or structural deformities,
* previous surgical intervention related to the neck region,
* severe pain (more than 7 in 0 to 10 VAS)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Neck pain
timeFrame: 5 minute
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Neck Disability
timeFrame: 10 minute
measure: Leisure Time Management
timeFrame: 10 minute
measure: Exercise Stage of Change
timeFrame: 10 minute
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ankara
country: Turkey
facility: Tezel Yıldırım Şahan
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Health science
name: Tezel Y Şahan, pHD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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