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Comparison Between Soft Tissue Mobilization and Strengthening Exercises in Management of Local Neck Syndrome

NCT05227963 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2022-02-08

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Summary

A single-blinded, parallel-group randomized controlled trial was conducted at the national institute of rehabilitation medicine, Pakistan, from April to July 2016, on 30 females who were recruited through non-probability convenient sampling technique and randomly allocated to the experimental and control group.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

soft tissue mobilization

In this group, each participants received 45-minutes long session that includes 25-minutes of soft tissue mobilization and 20-minutes of neck isometric strengthening exercises. In each session, patient was seated on chair and sustained pressure, direct oscillation, perpendicular mobilization, parallel mobilization, and friction massage was applied on the neck musculature for a minute followed by a release for 30 seconds. This protocol was repeated three times in each session. Each session was repeated four-times a week for two-weeks (a total eight sessions).

OTHER

neck isometric strengthening exercises

In this group, each participant received 20-minutes long session. Each session started in seated position and participants were asked to perform flexion, extension, side bending and rotation against resistance. During flexion movement, therapist placed hand on forehead and asked patient to move the neck forward, while in extension, therapist hand was placed at back of the head and patient had to move neck in backward direction. However, in side bending and rotation- therapist hand was placed at lateral side of the head and asked patient to side bend the neck and look at shoulder in the same direction respectively. Each session was repeated four-times a week for two-weeks (a total eight sessions).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Health Education Research Foundation (HERF)

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-04
Primary Completion
2016-05-10
Completion
2021-08-20

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