Impact Of Cervical High-Intensity Resistive Exercises In Patients With Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Cervical High-Intensity Resistive Exercises, Conventional physical therapy.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain. Basic parameters: 20 years — 40 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
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Official title
Impact of Cervical High-Intensity Resistive Exercises on Ventilatory Measures in Patients With Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain
Overview
Purposes of the study To investigate the effect of adding Cervical High-Intensity Resistive Exercises to conventional physical therapy in patients with Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain
Detailed description
Patients will be randomized into either Cervical High-Intensity Resistive Exercises group or Conventional physical therapy group. Patients will receive the intervention for six weeks. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline and post-intervention.
Interventions
- Other Cervical High-Intensity Resistive Exercises
The patient will wear a neck harness, and a weight equivalent to 90% of the patient's measured maximum voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) will be attached to it. - Other Conventional physical therapy
Conventional physical therapy consisting of TENS for pain control, soft tissue release for the cervical and associated muscles, activation and strengthening exercises for the deep neck flexors, extensors, and scapular muscles, as well as diaphragmatic breathing exercises.
Primary outcome measures
- Disability [Time frame: Change from Baseline Disability at 6 weeks]
- Diaphragm thickness [Time frame: Change from Baseline Diaphragm thickness at 6 weeks]
- Forced vital capacity (FVC) [Time frame: Change from Baseline Forced vital capacity (FVC) at 6 weeks]
- maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) [Time frame: Change from maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) at 6 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Neck pain [Time frame: Change from Baseline Neck pain at 6 weeks]
- Strength of neck flexors, extensors, and side bending [Time frame: Change from Baseline Strength of neck flexors, extensors, and side bending at 6 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Thirty-four patients diagnosed CNSNP.
- Age of the patients between 20-40 years.
- Non-specific neck pain started more than 3 months.
- Reduce ventilatory function; FVC >= 70% from predicted.
- Waist to height ratio (WtHR)> 60 %.
- Positive craniocervical flexion test.
- Positive neck flexor endurance test.
- Pain at neck after prolonged static weight bearing positions.
- Pain with palpation of the neck paraspinal or suboccipital or trapezius muscles.
Exclusion criteria
- History of whiplash injury.
- Clinical sign of cervical radiculopathy.
- Clinical signs of cervical myelopathy.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis or any other autoimmune diseases.
- Any respiratory disorders.
- Tumors.
- vertebrobasilar insufficiency VBI.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Double blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Egypt · 1 center
- outpatient clinic, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University — Giza
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07132229 · P.T.REC/012/004930