Clinical trial NCT04841642: Feasibility and Impact of a Tele-rehabilitation Program in Patients With Chronic and Non-specific Neck Pain
Official title: Feasibility and Impact of a Tele-rehabilitation Program in Patients With Chronic and Non-specific Neck Pain
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain
Lead sponsor: University of Jaén
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-04-12
Enrollment: 46
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Chronic neck pain has a high prevalence in developed countries, being one of the main causes of years lived with disability and deterioration of the quality of life. Telerehabilitation is presented as a resource capable of favoring, with its development and implementation, the transition to a universal and quality health service. The main objective of the study is to assess the change in disability produced by a telerehabilitation program (applied in the intervention group) in patients with chronic and nonspecific neck pain compared to the recommendation of home exercises (control group).

The study that will be carried out will be a controlled and randomized clinical trial (ECCA), single-blind, longitudinal and prospective with two groups (intervention group and control group). The main study variables that are intended to be analyzed pre and post intervention are disability, quality of life, pain, adherence, and depression and anxiety.

The study will take place between June 2020 and May 2021 in specialized physiotherapy clinics.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* People between 18 and 65 years of age
* Neck pain of more than 3 months of evolution
* Access and knowledge in the use of the internet
* Complete the informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previous trauma to the cervical region (such as whiplash)
* Neck surgery
* Osteoporosis
* Arthritis
* Cervical radiculopathy associated with externalized cervical hernia
* Vertigo or vertebrobasilar insufficiency
* Cancer
* Vertebral fracture
* Fibromyalgia
* Cognitive impairment
* Psychiatric disorders.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Changes in disability
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks and 2 month after intervention.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Changes in the health-related quality of life
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks and 2 month after intervention.
measure: Changes in depression and anxiety
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks and 2 month after intervention.
measure: Changes in Kinesiophobia
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks and 2 month after intervention.
measure: Changes in the pain: Visual Analog Scale (VAS)
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks and 2 month after intervention.
measure: Adherence to treatment
timeFrame: At 4 and 8 weeks of treatment
measure: Pressure pain threshold
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks and 2 month after intervention.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Santa Brígida
country: Spain
facility: Cristina
state: Las Palmas
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Jaen
name: Alexander Achalandabaso, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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