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Sensorimotor Exercises and Neurodevelopmental Yoga in Chronic Neck Pain

NCT06236737 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2024-02-01

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Summary

Neck pain is an important public health problem with a high lifetime prevalence and frequently occurring in all industrialized countries. Clinical practice guidelines for chronic neck pain recommend conservative management. Conservative treatment includes many approaches such as endurance, stretching and strengthening exercises, manual therapy, proprioceptive exercises, pilates and yoga. In patients with chronic neck pain, atrophy of deep neck muscles, deterioration in fiber type ratio, muscle tenderness and decreased range of motion are observed. These problems cause poor cervical postural control system and thus impaired sense of proprioception, loss of balance, decreased eye movement and cervical muscle activity. Sensorimotor control of upright posture and head-eye movement relies on information from the vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive systems that assemble throughout the central nervous system.The cervical spine has an important role in providing proprioceptive input. This role is associated with an abundance of cervical mechanoreceptors. Recent studies have shown that proprioceptive training is associated with cervical joint position sense, joint range of motion, pain and disability. Also yoga combines physical exercises with breathing techniques and meditation and yoga is one of the most commonly used complementary treatments for neck pain.The aim of study is to determine the effectiveness of exercises for sensorimotor structure and yoga exercises with physical and meditative effects in individuals with chronic neck pain.

Conditions

  • Neck Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Sensorimotor Exercise

The sensorimotor group was given oculomotor, gaze stability and postural stability exercises. Each session lasted 40 minutes in total.

OTHER

Yoga Exercise

A flow was created for the yoga group. Each session lasting 40 minutes was included ocular motor, balance, meditation and stretching. Practices illustrated in table one were repeated for the eight weeks. Beginning of each session was focused on breathing exercises and the yoga flow is designed. Weeks 1-2. were prepared by focusing mostly on sagittal plane asanas. While 3-5. tweeks were focused on frontal plane asanas, 6-8. weeks were focused on transvers plan. Each session commenced with a 5-minute practice of a three dimensional breathing technique. This was followed by a 25-minute yoga asana flow, concluding with a 10-minute meditation in shavasana, also known as Corpse Pose. NDY was taught by an academician physiotherapist who has completed graduation in yoga therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medipol University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dilanur Kutlu Özkaraoğlu, MsC · Istanbul MedipolUniversity

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-12-01
Primary Completion
2022-03-01
Completion
2022-06-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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