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Patients With Neck Pain Likely to Benefit From Thoracic Spine Thrust Mobilization

NCT00504686 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 140

Last updated 2009-02-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Recently a clinical prediction rule (CPR) has been developed that identifies patients with neck pain who are likely to respond rapidly and dramatically to thoracic spine thrust manipulation and an active range of motion exercise. Although the initial predictor variables identified during the development of a thoracic spine manipulation CPR seem to have adequate face validity, there is no guarantee that these factors will persist in a different group of patients, even ones with similar characteristics as those used in the initial exploratory study. The purpose of this follow-up study in which patients will be randomly assigned to receive thoracic spine thrust manipulation followed by therapeutic exercises or therapeutic exercise alone will be to investigate the validity of the previously developed CPR. If the CPR is indeed meaningful, patients who are positive on the CPR and receive thoracic spine thrust manipulation should experience improved outcomes compared to patients who are negative on the CPR and receive thoracic spine manipulation, and compared to patients who are positive on the CPR but receive the intervention believed to be effective for another subgroup of patients with neck pain.

Conditions

  • Neck Pain

Interventions

OTHER

manual therapy

manual therapy - thoracic spine thrust manipulation

OTHER

exercise

therapeutic exercise

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Newton-Wellesley Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Franklin Pierce University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joshua A Cleland, PT, PhD · Franklin Pierce University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-01-31
Primary Completion
2008-12-31
Completion
2008-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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