Tokyo, Sept. 10 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000059040) titled 'The impact of a manual therapy technique and posture on neck in women with chronic neck problems' on Sept. 10.
Study Type:
Interventional
Study Design:
Basic Design - Parallel
Randomization - Randomized
Blinding - Single blind -investigator(s) and assessor(s) are blinded
Control - No treatment
Primary Sponsor:
Institute - University of Kharazmi Tehran
Condition:
Condition - Chronic Non-specific neck pain(CNNP)
Classification by malignancy - Others
Genomic information - NO
Objective:
Narrative objectives1 - The investigate the effects of combining Graston technique and postural control exercises on pain, disability, proprioception and cervical rang of motion in women with chronic non-specific neck pain
Basic objectives2 - Efficacy
Intervention:
Interventions/Control_1 - Participants in this group did not receive any intervention and served as the control group
Interventions/Control_2 - participant received postural control exercises based on McKenzie and Kendall protocol for 8 weeks, 3 sessions per week, each session lasting 35 minutes.
Eligibility:
Age-lower limit - 20
years-old
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Gender - Female
Key inclusion criteria - Age between 20-40 years
Female participants
Current neck pain lasting at 3 months
chronic non-specific neck pain diagnosed by specialist physician
pain intensity between 3-8 the Visual Analog Scale(VAS)
Neck Disability Index(NDI)score<10 at the time of screening
Key exclusion criteria - specific cervical spin disorders such as disc herniation or spinal canal stenosis
History of whiplash or head/neck trauma
recurrent migraine, fibromyalgia, shoulder disorders, inflammatory rheumatic diseasses, tumor or osteoporosis
psychiatric disorders
previous shoulder or cervical surgery
pregnancy
regular neck/shoulder exercise within the past 3 months
missing more than 2 intervention sessoins
Target Size - 36
Recruitment Status:
Recruitment status - Completed
Date of protocol fixation - 2024 Year 02 Month 20 Day
Date of IRB - 2024 Year 03 Month 11 Day
Anticipated trial start date - 2024 Year 12 Month 14 Day
Last follow-up date - 2025 Year 02 Month 28 Day
To know more, visit https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000067536
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