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NCT Number: NCT00566930

Preventive Care of Chronic Cervical Pain and Disabilities

The aim of this study is to determine which of tertiary prevention spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) or a home exercise program is the more efficient approach to reduce pain and increase functional capacity, quality of life and general health condition. To do so, 60 participants with chronic cervical pain, will be recruited and divided into 3 groups according to the intervention they will receive: control group, experimental group 1 who will receive preventive chiropractic care in the form of spinal manipulations and experimental group 2 will have to perform an individualized home exercise program on a daily basis. We hypothesize that a group of patient receiving SMT + a home exercise program will present less pain and functional disabilities over a 1 year period. The innovative value of this project is mainly related to the fact that it will generate new and potentially very useful data concerning the clinical significance of preventive chiropractic care. Moreover, such data will be beneficial to our profession as chiropractic makes a step towards prevention, wellness and public health.

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Key information

Conditions

Neck Pain Neurologic Manifestations Pain Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms

Age range

18 year–60 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières, Quebec, G9A 1R2, Canada

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Adults between 18 and 60 years old from the city and the surrounding Trois-Rivières with chronic cervical pain of non-traumatic origin (chronic or recurrent cervical pain that lasted at least 6 months)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

for the project are:

  • Surgery to the cervical spine
  • Neoplasms
  • Severe osteoarthritis
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Hypertension
  • Referred pain in the cervical area
  • Central or peripheric nervous system dysfunction
  • Vascular disease
  • Treated cardiovascular disease
  • Inflammatory or infectious disease of the cervical spine
  • Metabolic or endocrine diseases
  • Pregnancy
  • Specific rehabilitation training for the neck or already under manual therapy for neck pain
  • Patient suffering from dizziness, vertigo or headache suspected to be cervicogenic or of unknown origin will not be involved in the study.

Treatment and study plan

Spinal Manipulation

Other

Monthly cervical spinal manipulation

Spinal manipulation + exercises

Other

Monthly cervical spine manipulation and daily home exercises

Primary outcomes

  1. Neck Pain

    Time frame: Up to 10 months

    Visual analog pain scale (score 0-10 cm; 0 being no neck pain and 10 extreme neck pain)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Fear Avoidance Belief, Quality of Life, Range of Motion

    Time frame: One year

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Other

Collaborators

  • Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER)

Registry information

Official study title

Preventive Care of Chronic Cervical Pain and Disabilities; Comparison of Spinal Manipulative Therapy and Individualized Home Exercise Programs

Important dates

Study start
2007
Primary completion
2008
Study completion
2008
First posted
Dec 4, 2007
Registry last updated
Sep 28, 2012

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