The Effect of Integrated Neuromuscular Inhibition Technique in Combination With Therapeutic Exercise on Patients With Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02802189
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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 examine the combine effect of the integrated neuromuscular inhibition technique (soft tissue mobilization techniques protocol), in combination with the therapeutic exercise in patients with chronic mechanical neck pain in the sub-acute stage of symptoms, and to determine whether this combination substantially helps the faster and more efficient installation of adaptations of exercising.
Study details
- Official title
- The Effect of Integrated Neuromuscular Inhibition Technique in Combination With Therapeutic Exercise on Patients With Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Exercise programme
- Other: Integrated Neuromuscular Inhibition Technique application.
- Sponsor
- Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki
- Start date
- 2016-06
- Primary completion
- 2017-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 30 Years to 60 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Greece
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with chronic neck pain with a duration of symptoms for at least three months * Existence of at least one active or latent trigger point in any of the muscles: levator scapulae, upper trapezoid, and splenius capitis * Patients whose neck pain has emerged as a result of a specific pathology, confirmed by radio-diagnostic tests (X-ray or MRI) * Patients with a medical referral for physical therapy with the etiology of neck pain Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who are in the acute stage of symptoms * Patients who have participated in any kind of treatment during the last three months (physiotherapy, massage, local injections of anesthetic blocks, etc.) * Patients who have participated in an exercise program concerning their neck during the last six months * Background of neck trauma and / or surgery in the neck region * Inflammatory muscle diseases and joint infections, malignancy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02802189