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Chiropractic Care for Neck Pain: Comparing Diversified Technique and Drop Table Method

NCT07034144 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 45

Last updated 2025-06-24

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Summary

This study aims to compare the effects of two different chiropractic techniques, Diversified and Drop Table, on pain levels, cervical joint range of motion, and neck muscle strength in individuals with non-specific neck pain.

Conditions

  • Spinal Manipulation
  • Neck Pain
  • Non Specific Neck Pain
  • Chiropractic

Interventions

OTHER

Drop Table Technique

The Drop Table Technique is a chiropractic intervention that utilizes a segmented treatment table with adjustable sections that can be elevated slightly and then dropped. During the procedure, a high-velocity, low-amplitude (HVLA) thrust is applied while the specific segment of the table drops slightly in coordination with the thrust. This technique aims to reduce the resistance experienced during the adjustment and to enhance the mechanical effect on targeted spinal joints. In this study, the Drop Table Technique will be specifically applied to the cervical spine to address mechanical neck pain. All applications will be performed by a licensed chiropractor using standardized positioning and adjustment protocols to ensure consistency across sessions.

OTHER

Cervical Spine Manipulation

Cervical spinal manipulation (SM) will be applied with the participant supine to restrictions found on motion palpation, following the technique described by Bergmann and Peterson. The participant's head and neck will be simultaneously rotated and laterally flexed over the contact point-specifically, the posterior supramastoid groove or zygomatic arch (C0-C1), the posterior aspect of the transverse process (C1-C2), or the posterior articular pillar of superior vertebrae (C2-C7)-to the end of passive range of motion (ROM). Subsequently, a high-velocity, low-amplitude thrust will be delivered in the direction of restricted movement. Participants with greater ROM restriction in the lateral plane will receive more laterally-to-medially directed thrusts. Participants with more restriction in rotation will be given thrusts in the direction of restricted axial rotation, and those with more restriction in extension will receive more anteriorly directed thrusts.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • SEFA HAKTAN HATIK

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • SEFA H HATIK, Asst. Prof. · Sinop University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-06-14
Primary Completion
2025-07-14
Completion
2025-08-14

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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