Chiropractic Neuroscience Care in Sports Concussion
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: chiropractic applied clinical neuroscience care.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Sports Related Concussion. Basic parameters: 18 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
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The Effects of Chiropractic Applied Clinical Neuroscience Care on Sports-Related Concussion Patients: An Observational Study
Overview
The goal of this study is to evaluate our study design and the potential effect of chiropractic-applied clinical neuroscience care on individuals with sports-related concussion (SRC) in individuals between the ages 18 and 40.The main question it aims to answer is: \- Is there any potential effect of chiropractic neuroscience care on sports related concussion patients? Participants will be assessed on their attention, processing speed, fine motor function, standing balance, auditory function, and emotional state as part of the study using the NIH toolbox.
Detailed description
The investigators shall recruit 20 participants for this study who are currently active athletes affiliated with the Life University Athletics Department, aged between 18 and 40 years and have sport-related concussion symptoms such as headache, nausea, dizziness, loss of consciousness, amnesia, balance impairment, irritability, visual disturbance, slowed reaction times, etc.
Subjects will do the following tasks:
1. Attention and Self-Control Test: In this test participants will look at rows of five fish on a screen and choose the direction of the middle fish while ignoring the others and press a button to show the direction of the middle fish. 2. Processing Speed Test: Participants will see two pictures side by side and decide if the pictures are the same or different and press a button as fast as they can. 3. Hand Skill Test: Subjects will be asked to do a hand skill/coordination test (called the 9-Hole Pegboard Test), where they place small pegs into holes and take them out as quickly as they can. 4. Standing Balance Test: In this test participants will stand still in various positions, sometimes with your eyes open and sometimes closed, on both hard ground and a soft foam pad, while trying to remain as still as possible. On one part of the test, they will stand with one foot in front of the other. 5. Hearing in Noise Test: Subjects will listen to words through headphones while background noise is playing. They will repeat the words they hear. 6. Emotion Surveys: They will answer questions about their feelings and relationships. These include how often they feel angry, sad, or lonely, and how happy or satisfied they feel with their life.
Assessments will be approximately 80 minutes over two sessions.
Interventions
- Other chiropractic applied clinical neuroscience care
Standard chiropractic care with physiotherapy and phototherapy over two sessions
Primary outcome measures
- Number of Participants Who Complete All Study Visits and Procedures [Time frame: 1 year]
- Recruitment [Time frame: 1 year]
- Retention [Time frame: 1 year]
- Adherence [Time frame: 1 year]
Secondary outcome measures (10)
- Change in Executive Function, Attention, and Inhibitory Control [Time frame: 1 year]
- Change in Visual Processing Speed [Time frame: 1 year]
- Change in Fine Motor Skills and Dexterity [Time frame: 1 year]
- Change in Postural Stability and Balance [Time frame: 1 year]
- Change in Auditory Processing and Speech Recognition in Noise [Time frame: 1 year]
- Change in Negative Affect of Anger and Sadness [Time frame: 1]
- Change in Emotional Support and Loneliness [Time frame: 1]
- Change in Psychological Well-being (General Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect) [Time frame: 1 year]
- Acceptability from Participant Perspective [Time frame: 1 year]
- Acceptability from Clinician Perspective [Time frame: 1 year]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Currently active athletes affiliated with the Life University Athletics Department
- Aged between 18 and 40 years
- Experiencing sport-related concussion symptoms, including but not limited to:
- Headache
- Nausea
- Dizziness
- Loss of consciousness
- Amnesia
- Balance impairment
- Irritability
- Visual disturbance
- Slowed reaction times
Exclusion criteria
- Not affiliated with the Life University Athletics Department
- Younger than 18 or older than 40 years
- No current symptoms of sport-related concussion
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- NeuroLife Institute — Marietta
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07175753 · I-0033