Clinical trial NCT02424058: The Investigation of Thoracic Spinal Curvature and Mobility in Subjects With and Without Neck Pain: Cut-off Points
Official title: The Investigation of the Sagittal Thoracic Spinal Curvature and Mobility in Subjects With and Without Chronic Neck Pain: Cut-off Points and Pain Relationship
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Neck Pain
Lead sponsor: Ataturk Training and Research Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-04-22
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients with Chronic neck pain and heatlhy subjects

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate the sagittal thoracic spinal curvature and mobility in subjects with and without chronic neck pain, cut-off points and pain relationship


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients aged between 18 and 65 years with persistent neck pain for more than 3 months
* The inclusion criteria for the control group included acceptance to participate in the study, no previous neck pain (lifetime-to-date), no spinal surgery or deformity, and no radiological abnormalities detected

Exclusion Criteria:

* Prior history of injury or surgery relating to spine, spinal deformity, neurological symptoms or signs, radiological abnormalities indicating cervical radiculopathy or myelopathy, prior history of other spinal disorder such as low back pain, active intervention in the last 3 months including drug therapy or physiotherapy, malignancy, systemic pathology including any rheumatologic disease and osteoporosis

Primary outcomes:
measure: Thoracic curvature, as measured by Spinal Mouse®
timeFrame: participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of one year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Pain, as measured by Visual Analog Scale
timeFrame: participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of one year
measure: Thoracic mobility, as measured by Spinal Mouse®
timeFrame: participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of one year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ankara
country: Turkey
facility: Ataturk Training and Research Hospital
state: Cankaya
Study officials:
References:
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citation: Tsunoda D, Iizuka Y, Iizuka H, Nishinome M, Kobayashi R, Ara T, Yamamoto A, Takagishi K. Associations between neck and shoulder pain (called katakori in Japanese) and sagittal spinal alignment parameters among the general population. J Orthop Sci. 2013 Mar;18(2):216-9. doi: 10.1007/s00776-012-0341-6. Epub 2012 Dec 12.