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Effectiveness of Radial Pressure Waves Therapy in the Treatment of Non-Specific Neck Pain (rPWT)

NCT04758065 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-04-02

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Summary

The present study aims to know the effectiveness of radial pressure wave therapy in the treatment of people with nonspecific neck pain. The study hypothesis is that including radial pressure wave therapy in a protocol based on manual therapy and therapeutic exercise is more effective than the protocol alone for the treatment of nonspecific neck pain.

Participants will be randomly assigned into 2 groups, one will be applied only the manual therapy and exercise protocol and the other the same protocol, plus shock wave therapy. Data related to the pathology will be collected and compared between the two groups to determine which treatment is more effective.

Conditions

  • Neck Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Radial pressure waves Therapy

Combination of the usual physiotherapy treatment with the application of radial pressure waves compared with a control group in which only the usual treatment, in people with non-specific neck pain, will be applied. During the first month, the participants will perform 3 weekly sessions of home-based cervical therapeutic exercise and will come to the facilities, once a week, to get a manual therapy session based on the Maitland Concept (15 minutes of posteroanterior mobilizations in the restricted and/or painful vertebrae of the cervical and thoracic spine). Besides this participants of the experimental group will receive a radial pressure waves treatment sessión. Experimental Group: Home-based cervical therapeutic exercise, manual therapy, and radial pressure waves.

OTHER

Therapeutic Exercise and Manual Therapy

Combination of the usual physiotherapy treatment with the application of radial pressure waves compared with a control group in which only the usual treatment, in people with non-specific neck pain, will be applied. During the first month, the participants will perform 3 weekly sessions of home-based cervical therapeutic exercise and will come to the facilities, once a week, to get a manual therapy session based on the Maitland Concept (15 minutes of posteroanterior mobilizations in the restricted and/or painful vertebrae of the cervical and thoracic spine). Besides this participants of the experimental group will receive a radial pressure waves treatment sessión. Control Group: Home-based cervical therapeutic exercise and manual therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Pontificia Comillas

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carlos López Moreno, MSc · San Juan de Dios School of Nursing and Phisiotherapy, Comillas Pontifical University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
59 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-03-01
Primary Completion
2025-08-31
Completion
2025-08-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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