Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02222051
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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)
In this study the efficacy of Tai Chi will be tested in comparison to conventional neck exercises and usual care in a randomized controlled trial. Tai Chi and neck exercises will be lead by a trained exercise therapist and Tai Chi instructor, both groups receive 12 weeks of training, once weekly for 60-90 min in a group setting. Pain, Disability, quality of life, wellbeing, stress perception, psychological distress will be used to determine effects.
Study details
- Official title
- Tai Chi for Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Tai Chi
- Behavioral: Neck exercises
- Sponsor
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Start date
- 2014-08
- Primary completion
- 2014-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 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 non specific neck pain (3 months at least) * 45mm pain intensity on average on the visual analog scale Exclusion Criteria: * specific neck pain due to * inflammatory diseases * rheumatic diseases * neurological diseases * prolapse or protrusion * oncological disease * trauma (whiplash) * congenital deformity of the spine * severe comorbidity (somatic, psychiatric) * pregnancy * participation in other clinical trials * regular practice of tai chi, qigong, yoga in the past 6 months * medication with opioids
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02222051