Effects of Craniosacral Therapy on Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT01526447
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to determinate the efficacy and safety of Craniosacral Therapy in the treatment of chronic unspecific neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Effects of Craniosacral Therapy on Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Craniosacral Therapy
- Procedure: Sham Craniosacral Therapy
- Sponsor
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Start date
- 2012-02
- Primary completion
- 2012-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Germany
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic unspecific neck pain for at least 3 months * Mean neck pain of moderate intensity (\>/=45mm on VAS) * Therapy-naive subjects Exclusion Criteria: * Specific neck pain due to severe deformity of the spine, prolapse, rheumatic or neurological disorder, trauma, operation or cancer * other severe somatic or psychiatric comorbidity * pregnancy * regular intake of opiates, corticosteroids (\>10mg prednisolon), muscle relaxants or antidepressants * recent invasive or manipulative treatment of the spine * participation in other clinical trials
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01526447