Clinical trial NCT02827994: Pain Neurophysiology Education and Exercise for Adolescents With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain
Official title: Pain Neurophysiology Education and Exercise for Adolescents With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain: a School-based Pilot, Randomised and Controlled Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Neck Pain
Lead sponsor: Aveiro University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-07-11
Enrollment: 43
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Maximum age (years): 20
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study compared the effectiveness of pain neurophysiology education and neck/shoulder exercises with no intervention in adolescents with chronic idiopathic neck pain (CINP).

Detailed description: Forty three adolescents with chronic idiopathic neck pain were randomly allocated to receive pain neurophysiology education and shoulder/neck exercises (n=21) or no intervention (n=22). Data on pain intensity (Visual Analogue Scale), pain disability, neck flexor and extensor muscles endurance, scapulae stabilizers endurance, pain catastrophizing (Pain catastrophizing Scale), trait and state anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) and knowledge of pain neurophysiology (Neurophysiology of Pain Questionnaire) were collected. Measurements were taken before and after the intervention.

Statistical analysis were performed using a mixed-methods ANOVA.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* To be invited to enter the study participants had to have chronic idiopathic neck/shoulder pain, defined as pain felt in the neck/shoulder regions at least once a week in the previous 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

* No exclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Pain intensity
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Pain intensity
timeFrame: 5 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Neck pain frequency
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Neck pain frequency
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: Neck pain duration
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Neck pain duration
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: Neck pain associated disability
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Neck pain associated disability
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: Neck flexor muscles endurance test
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Neck flexor muscles endurance test
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: Neck extensor muscles endurance test
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Neck extensor muscles endurance test
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: Scapular stabilizers' endurance test
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Scapular stabilizers' endurance test
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: State-trait anxiety inventory
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: State-trait anxiety inventory
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: Pain Catastrophizing Scale
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Pain Catastrophizing Scale
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: Neurophysiology of pain questionnaire
timeFrame: At the beginning
measure: Neurophysiology of pain questionnaire
timeFrame: 5 weeks
measure: Patients' Global Impression of Change
timeFrame: 5 weeks
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