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Telemedicine to Manage Chronic Neck Pain at Home

NCT02736851 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 94

Last updated 2016-09-28

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Summary

The aim of the study is to investigate if a home-based structured physician-directed, nurse-managed telemedicine program can increase adherence to a home exercise program and decrease neck pain and disability.

The study is carried out in 100 consecutive patients with chronic non-specific neck pain.

All patients referred to a rehabilitation Institute for an out-.patient visit complete a stretching exercise program and are instructed and encouraged to perform exercises regularly once at home. At the end of the rehabilitation, the patients are randomized into two groups of 50 patients each. Patients of the first Group are allocated to a home-based telemedicine (HBT), while those of the second group receive only the recommendation to continue exercising at home (Control group). The HBT intervention consists of fortnightly scheduled phone calls to patients over the 6-month course of the study. A nurse-tutor encourages the patient to perform regularly physical activity and prescribes exercises.

Adherence to home exercises is evaluated 15 days and 6 months after the end of the outpatient rehabilitation, while pain intensity and neck disability are assessed and compared in the two groups at entry and 6 months after the end of the outpatient rehabilitation .

Conditions

  • Adherence

Interventions

OTHER

Home-based telemedicine group

All patients referring to the rehabilitation service as out-patients underwent in-hospital a specific exercise program for the neck. Patients are instructed individually by a physical therapist to perform several types of exercises and, from the first rehabilitation session, are encouraged to exercise regularly at home. Written and illustrated material reporting home exercises is provided to all patients. At the end of out-rehabilitation program, according to a randomization list, patients are randomized in 2 groups and those included in a Home-Based Telemedicine (HBT) program are followed up by a nurse tutor at home for a 6-month period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Simonetta Scalvini, MD · Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-12-31
Completion
2014-06-30

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