Effectiveness of a Self-rehabilitation Program

Patients included in the "self-rehabilitation" group will, in addition to conventional physiotherapy, to visit two training sessions in self-rehabilitation at the hospital. Each patient received a booklet including advices to perform different kinds of exercises at home. The patients learn the exercises with the help of the physiotherapist and have to traine daily at home.

Patients will have to answer questionnaires about their pain at follow-usual consultations of their disease at 2 months and 4 months after the start physical therapy and during a phone call after 1 year.

Inclusion criteria

• Non-specific neck pain * ≥ 15 days / month for more than 3 months
• Consultation first line in the pain center
• Subject able to complete questionnaires
• Subject able to understand and perform exercises

Exclusion criteria

• History of stroke
• History of carotid or vertebral arterial dissection
• "Whiplash" for less than six months
• Cervicobrachial neuralgia for less than 3 months
• Syndrome of thoracic outlet diagnosed
• Tumor and infectious syndromes
• Polyarthritis or major cervical spondylosis against known-indicating active mobilization of the cervical spine
• Unbound bone trauma
• Patients with cognitive impairment prevents proper application instructions