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Pain Neurophysiology Education and Exercise for Adolescents With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain

NCT02827994 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 43

Last updated 2016-07-11

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Summary

This study compared the effectiveness of pain neurophysiology education and neck/shoulder exercises with no intervention in adolescents with chronic idiopathic neck pain (CINP).

Conditions

  • Neck Pain

Interventions

OTHER

neurophysiology of pain education and exercises

Pain neurophysiology education covered the neurophysiology of pain, transition from acute to chronic pain and the nervous system ability to modulate the pain experience. It was delivered in small groups (4 to 7 participants). A total of 4 sessions were delivered over 4 weeks (1 session per week). Each session took between 45 minutes and 1 hour. Exercises were aimed at increasing the endurance and strength of the deep neck flexor and extensor muscles and of the scapular muscles delivered over 3 sessions (the first session covered pain neurophysiology education only). Each exercise was performed in 3 series of 10 repetitions. The number of exercises targeting the same group of muscles increased from one in the 2nd session to 2/3 in the 4th session.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aveiro University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-03-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-06-30

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