Manual Therapy Versus Manual Therapy and Exercise and Education in Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02033460
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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 study is to know which combination of treatments are the most effective in patients with non-specific neck pain. Study design: This is a single-blind randomized controlled trial. (outcomes assessor). Study population: Men and women aged 18 to 60 years old with neck pain for at least 12 weeks. Interventions: 3 groups will be treated for a period of 4 weeks (8 sessions total; 2 per week).
Study details
- Official title
- Manual Therapy vs Manual Therapy and Exercise vs Manual Therapy and Exercise and Education in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain
- Conditions
- Neck Pains
- Posterior Cervical Pains
- Posterior Neck Pain
- Cervicalgia
- Interventions
- Other: Manual Therapy and Education
- Other: Manual Therapy
- Other: Manual therapy, Education and Exercise
- Sponsor
- Josue Fernandez Carnero
- Collaborators
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Organization
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Start date
- 2011-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-11
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * The subjects for the study were selected if they fulfilled the following inclusion criteria: Aged between 18 to 60 years old, head and/or neck pain for at least 12 weeks and having the willing to undergo the treatment. Exclusion Criteria: * if they had appearance of "red flags", rheumatologic diseases or any type of cancer, cervical surgery in the past, whiplash trauma and undergoing any type of treatment like physical therapy, manual therapy, osteopathy, chiropraxis, acupuncture during the last three months. All patients recruited for the study complained of pain localized in the neck and/or head region. Initial screening was accomplished by telephone and eligible persons attended a evaluation appointment.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02033460