A practical approach to treat patients suffering from neck pain since 3 months based on clinical reasoning using various physiotherapeutic techniques

• Register: CTRI
• Last refreshed on: 24 November 2021
• Main ID: CTRI/2016/01/006577
• Date of registration: 29-01-2016
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Sibi Daniel Joseph
• Public title: A practical approach to treat patients suffering from neck pain since 3 months based on clinical reasoning using various physiotherapeutic techniques
• Scientific title: Reasoning based therapeutic approach in chronic neck pain: a pragmatic study
• Date of first enrolment: 22-04-2013
• Target sample size: 54
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://www.ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/pmaindet2.php?trialid=11698
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Other; Method of generating randomization sequence:Not Applicable Method of allocation concealment:Not Applicable Blinding and masking:Investigator Blinded
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

India

Contacts

• Name: Sibi Daniel Joseph
• Affiliation: MGM School of Physiotherapy

• Name: Sibi Daniel Joseph
• Affiliation: MGM School of Physiotherapy

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Age group between 20 and 55 years including both genders

Chronic pain having not less than 3 score on Visual Analogue Scale


Exclusion criteria: Fractures, VBI, Tumors, Serious pathology and any cervical spine surgeries

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Health Condition 1: null- Chronic Neck Pain

Intervention(s)

Intervention1: Manual therapy: After categorizing the tissues into the respective group of dysfunction the appropriate treatment techniques based on the existing literature is applied which will include relevant manual therapy, conventional physical therapy and ergonomic advice as a home program
Control Intervention1: NIL: NIL

Primary Outcome(s)

VAS, NDITimepoint: prior to the treatment, every day for the first 5 days, once a week for the first one month and end of 3 months

Secondary Outcome(s)

ROM using CROM device, Pressure pain threshold using pressure algometer, number visits, photograph of the neck posture in a relaxed sitting position, number of recurrence in the next 3 months following treatment, Flexi ruler and unstructured interviewTimepoint: prior to the treatment, every day for the first 5 days, once a week for the first one month and end of 3 months

Secondary ID(s)

NIL

Source(s) of Monetary Support

MGM School of Physiotherapy

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date: 24/04/2012
Contact:

Institutional ethics review committee of MGM Institute of Health Sciences

Results

• Date Completed: 31/12/2015