Telemedicine to Manage Chronic Neck Pain at Home
CompletedNot applicableNCT02736851
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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 aim of the study is to investigate if a home-based structured physician-directed, nurse-managed telemedicine program can increase adherence to a home exercise program and decrease neck pain and disability. The study is carried out in 100 consecutive patients with chronic non-specific neck pain. All patients referred to a rehabilitation Institute for an out-.patient visit complete a stretching exercise program and are instructed and encouraged to perform exercises regularly once at home. At the end of the rehabilitation, the patients are randomized into two groups of 50 patients each. Patients of the first Group are allocated to a home-based telemedicine (HBT), while those of the second group receive only the recommendation to continue exercising at home (Control group). The HBT intervention consists of fortnightly scheduled phone calls to patients over the 6-month course of the study. A nurse-tutor encourages the patient to perform regularly physical activity and prescribes exercises. Adherence to home exercises is evaluated 15 days and 6 months after the end of the outpatient rehabilitation, while pain intensity and neck disability are assessed and compared in the two groups at entry and 6 months after the end of the outpatient rehabilitation .
Study details
- Official title
- Home-Based Telemedicine Management of Patients Affected by Chronic Neck Pain
- Conditions
- Adherence
- Interventions
- Other: Home-based telemedicine group
- Sponsor
- Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri
- Start date
- 2009-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-12
- 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: * chronic non-specific neck pain duration more than 6 months. Exclusion Criteria: * pain duration less than 6 months * willingness to sign the informed consent form (unable to read or write) * cognitive deficit (e.g. Alzheimer disease or senile dementia) * patient unable to attend all sessions of exercises * inflammatory rheumatic diseases * history of fracture or operations around the neck region * neurological diseases that may lead to neck pain, infections or tumours * pregnancy * rehabilitation sessions for neck pain since less than 12 months.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02736851