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Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise

NCT03362333 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2017-12-05

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Summary

This study examined the effects of pain neuroscience education plus exercise when compared with exercise only in university students with chronic idiopathic neck pain.

Conditions

  • Neck Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Exercise

Exercises were aimed at increasing the endurance and strength of the deep neck flexor and extensor muscles and of the scapular stabilizer muscles.

OTHER

Pain neuroscience education

Pain neuroscience education covered the neurophysiology of pain, transition from acute to chronic pain and the nervous system ability to modulate the pain experience.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aveiro University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anabela Silva, PhD · University of Aveiro

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-01
Primary Completion
2016-02-28
Completion
2016-10-30

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