Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
• Main ID: NCT02222051
• Date of registration: 18/08/2014
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Public title: Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain TaiChiNe
• Scientific title: Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Date of first enrolment: August 2014
• Target sample size: 114
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02222051
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Germany

Contacts

• Name: Gustav Dobos, Prof.
• Affiliation: Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- chronic non specific neck pain (3 months at least)

- 45mm pain intensity on average on the visual analog scale

Exclusion Criteria:

- specific neck pain due to

- inflammatory diseases

- rheumatic diseases

- neurological diseases

- prolapse or protrusion

- oncological disease

- trauma (whiplash)

- congenital deformity of the spine

- severe comorbidity (somatic, psychiatric)

- pregnancy

- participation in other clinical trials

- regular practice of tai chi, qigong, yoga in the past 6 months

- medication with opioids



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Neck Pain

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Tai Chi

Behavioral: Neck exercises

Primary Outcome(s)

pain intensity [Time Frame: week 12]

Secondary Outcome(s)

health related quality of life [Time Frame: week 12, week 24]

interoceptive awareness [Time Frame: week 12, week 24]

neck disability [Time Frame: week 12, week 24]

pain intensity [Time Frame: week 24]

Anxiety and Depression [Time Frame: week 12, week 24]

pain intensity ratings [Time Frame: week 12]

Postural Awareness [Time Frame: week 12, week 24]

use of concomitant therapies [Time Frame: week 12]

pain on movement [Time Frame: week 12, week 24]

Stress [Time Frame: week 12, week 24]

Safety [Time Frame: week 24]

use of analgetics [Time Frame: week 12]

Wellbeing [Time Frame: week 12, week 24]

Secondary ID(s)

13-5672 Tai Chi Neck Pain

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors