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Effect of Chosen Treatment Methods in Patients With Cervical Spine Osteoarthritis

NCT03683602 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2018-09-25

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Summary

Abstract Objective: To compare effect of PNF therapy with manual therapy on pain, associated symptoms, range of motion and functioning in patients with cervical spine osteoarthritis.

Design: Parallel group, single-center, double-blinded randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Outpatient clinic in hospital KCRiO. Subject: Eligible patients were female adults with chronic pain of cervical spine due to osteoarthritis of vertebral body and intervertebral disc confirmed by X-ray.

Interventions: Group I (PNF group) was treated according to PNF concept, while Group II according to manual therapy (manual therapy group). Both groups received 10 days of treatment, 45 minutes each day.

Main measures: Primary outcomes measures were Oswestry scale and range of motion (ROM). Secondary outcomes measures were subjective evaluation of cervical pain according to VAS scale and associated symptoms (headache, vertigo, ROM of shoulder joints, balance). For each scale results were measured at baseline, after two weeks of intervention and after a three-month follow-up period without therapy.

Keywords: neck pain, PNF, manual therapy

Conditions

  • Cervical Spine Osteophyte

Interventions

OTHER

PNF group

PNF is used in treatment of musculoskeletal pain of cervical and lumbar spine. Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation is a rehabilitation concept widely used by physiotherapists in many countries, in which stimulation of central nervous system is to achieve the highest possible functional level

OTHER

manual therapy group

Manual therapy is used for an assessment and treatment of joint and soft tissues. The basic therapeutic tool is mobilisation. In the study joint mobilisation according to Kaltenborn-Evjenth Manual Therapy was used. The joint were mobilised with low velocity passive movements in the whole or end range. Spinal manipulation wasn't used. Liter Exelby reports that manual therapy with joints mobilisation was quite effective in improvement of functional movements and decreasing of pain.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Jagiellonian University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tomasz Maicki, PhD · Jagiellonian University Colegium Medicum

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2014-04-30

Countries

  • Poland

Study Locations

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