Clinical trial NCT04187001: Home Exercises Protocol for Neck Pain
Official title: Home Exercises for Neck Pain: a Delphi Survey
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Neck Pain
Keywords: stabilization
exercise
Delphi
Lead sponsor: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.
First posted: 2019-12-05
Enrollment: 27
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Physical therapists with publication or experience in cervical area. Individuals with chronic neck pain.

Brief summary: Delphi study about home exercise protocol development for neck pain.

Detailed description: Introduction: Neck pain is rising globally as a musculoskeletal disorder, as a result of several factors. Currently, there are several types of treatments for cervicalgia, applied according to the therapist's choice and patient's conditions and preferences, however, there are no reports of an effective self-performing treatment aiming to stabilizing the cervical, giving musculoskeletal balance, and focus on reducing pain.

It is important the promotion of a self-performing treatment, resulting in a high cost benefit because patient does not have to move to perform the treatment outside his or her home, does not need financial resources and demands little time to perform it. In addition to decreasing the frequency and intensity of hospitalizations and government costs incurred in this musculoskeletal disorder. Therefore, the study aims to construct, validate and adapt a self-performing exercise protocol in reducing cervical pain.

Methods: The first phase was the development of the first version of the protocol, through literature search; in the second phase, the content was validated, through evaluation by a committee of nine physiotherapists judges using the Delphi technique; and the last phase of the protocol, the cultural adequacy, is being performed through evaluation by fifteen participants of the target population to assemble the final version of the protocol.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Judges: physical therapists with at least 2 years of experience in cervical area.
* Target population: chronic neck pain.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Vestibular system problems, balance impairment, nervous system-related disorders, inability to perform exercises, history of cervical trauma or surgery in the region, history of cervical radiculopathy, history of cervical spine injury, temporomandibular dysfunction.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Concordance
timeFrame: february - may 2019
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Recife
country: Brazil
facility: Federal University of Pernambuco
state: Pernambuco
Study officials:
affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
name: Gisela R Siqueira, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Bezerra LMR, Melo TMS, Gomes VMDSA, Pas RCD, Alves LIDN, Salemi MM, Silva IR, Tenorio ADS, Siqueira GR. Home exercises for neck pain: A Delphi survey. Physiother Res Int. 2023 Apr;28(2):e1982. doi: 10.1002/pri.1982. Epub 2022 Nov 14.