Visceral Manipulation Treatment to Patients With Non-specific Neck Pain With Functional Dyspepsia

Summary

Background: Non-specific neck pain (NS-NP) is characterized by pain in structures located in the region between the superior nuchal line and the spinal process of the first thoracic vertebra, without association with any specific systemic disease provided by multifactorial and/or little known causes.

Objective: The objective of the present study will be to verify the clinical effects of MV through visceral nociceptive inhibition in NS-NP patients with functional dyspepsia.

Methods: In this study sixty NS-NP patients with functional dyspepsia (age: 18 and 50 years) will be randomized in into two groups: visceral manipulation group (VMG) (n =30) and control group (CG) (n =30). The VMG will be treated with visceral manipulation to the stomach and liver wile CG received placebo treatment. The immediate effects and 7 days after treatment will be evaluated through pain, cervical range, and electromyographic activity of the upper trapezius.

Conditions

• Neck Pain
• Functional Dyspepsia

Interventions

OTHER

Visceral manipulation

Participants will be instructed to lie down comfortably on a stretcher in the supine position, with lower limbs flexed and abdomen exposed, and the physiotherapist positioned to the right side of the patient. The therapeutic intervention will be began with the left hand of the physiotherapist in contact with the lower region of the stomach, to which a force will be applied so that the organ was moved in an upper and lateral left direction while the right hand controlled and directed the knees of the patient to the right side until the moment when the physiotherapist notice an increase in tension in the stomach region. For the liver manipulation, the same procedures will be followed, however, with contact in the right epigastric region and the knees directed to the left side. The same position will be maintained for each organ treated until the physiotherapist could feel, through touch, a decrease in the tension of the viscera. The mean treatment time will 5 minutes.

OTHER

Control group (CG)

The CG will be received placebo treatment. In the placebo treatment, the therapist should place the hands over the navel region without exerting any local tension for 1 minute.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Andréia Cristina de Oliveira Silva

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Claudia Santos Oliveira

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Daniela Aparecida Biasotto-Gonzalez

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Marco Antônio Fumagalli

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Cid André Fidelis de Paula Gomes

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Nove de Julho

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

50 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-10-01

Primary Completion

2017-01-30

Completion

2017-02-01