Does the Addition of Massage to Manual Therapy and Exercise Improve Outcome in Chronic Neck Pain?
CompletedNot applicableNCT02313480
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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)
To date, the benefits of massage in chronic neck pain patients has only been investigated as a singular treatment, rather than as part of a treatment package. The need for this research has been highlighted in the literature (Ezzo et al, 2007; Haraldsson et al, 2006) This research aimed to establish whether the addition of massage to a program of exercise and manual therapy offers any additional benefits over exercise and manual therapy alone in the treatment of patients with chronic neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Does the Addition of Massage to Manual Therapy and Exercise Improve Outcome in Chronic Neck Pain?
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Society of Musculoskeletal Medicine
- Start date
- 2013-04
- Primary completion
- 2013-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * neck pain for greater than three months * over 18 years of age * had not received treatment for their neck pain in the previous month * could speak conversational English * were not involved in any current compensation case and * had provided written, informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * severe co-existing disease, * neck pain due to fracture, tumour, infection or other non-mechanical causes, * if the patient had a diagnosis of osteoporosis anywhere in the body.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02313480