Clinical trial NCT04856813: Effectiveness of Massage Therapy With Active Component and Therapeutic Exercise in Cervical Pain
Official title: Effectiveness of Massage Therapy With Active Component and Therapeutic Exercise in Cervical Pain
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Neck Pain
Chronic Pain
Keywords: neck pain
exercise
Endurance
Training
Intervention
Lead sponsor: University of Jaén
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-04-23
Enrollment: 42
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: blind
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: It is an interventional study that proves the eficacy of the manual therapy with active manual therapy and combined with exercise in cervical pain.

Detailed description: The study will be divided in two different groups:

* A control group (group A) : they will receive a treatment with manual therapy and physical exercise.
* An experimental group (group B) : they will receive the previous treatment, but also the pacient's do active muscle active contraction.

The exercise is compound by a home program of several exercises with diferent difficulties.

The contraction will consist on a combination of concentric and isometric work. being the patient's pain threshold the one that will guide us to the choice of the predominance of concentric or isometric contraction . Both groups will be joined by a five-minute work on pain education.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* accept to participate in the study, through informed consent
* subjects with chronic nonspecific neck pain lasting equal to or more than 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* Present neck pain caused by serious pathology such as: inflammatory, congenital, infectious, metabolic and neoplastic diseases.
* Cervical pathology of traumatic origin with less than 6 months of evolution.
* Rheumatic diseases.
* Neck pain with neurological signs such as: radiculopathy and myelopathy.
* Previous surgery of the cervical spine.
* Pregnancy.
* Have received physiotherapeutic treatment in the cervical region during the month prior to the inclusion of the study.
* Have the intention of receiving other physiotherapeutic treatments different from the one proposed during the study period.
* Present serious mental disorders.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Neck disability
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month (primary timepoint) , 2 months and 5 months after intervention commencement.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in pain perception
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month (primary timepoint), 2 months and 5 months after intervention commencement.
measure: Change in Range of motion (ROM)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month (primary timepoint) and 2 months after intervention commencement.
measure: Change in craniocervical flexion
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month (primary timepoint) and 2 months after intervention commencement.
measure: Change in kinesophobia
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month (primary timepoint) , 2 months and 5 months after intervention commencement.
measure: Change in Catastrophism
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month (primary timepoint), 2 months and 5 months after intervention commencement.
measure: Change in Sleep Quality
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month (primary timepoint) , 2 months and 5 months after intervention commencement.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Alcalá De Henares
country: Spain
facility: Alexander achalandabaso
state: Madrid
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Jaen
name: Alexander Achalandabaso
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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