Effect of Therapeutic Exercise on the Activation of the Neck Extensors in People With Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02950909
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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 primary aim of this study therefore is to investigate the effects on pain and disability of an emphasized exercise program targeting the deep neck extensor semispinalis cervicis and a general exercise program for all neck extensor muscles in patients with chronic neck pain. As a secondary aim , pain intensity (VAS), cervical ROM, pressure pain threshold (PPT), cervical and thoracic posture and self-perceived benefit of treatment (GROC) were measured. The investigators hypothesized that both exercise programs would have similar effects on pain alleviation and pain related disability, but that the emphasized exercise program for the deep semispinalis cervicis would improve its activation more compared to the general exercise program. The results of this study will be relevant for designing effective rehabilitation/training programs for patients with chronic neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Effect of Therapeutic Exercise on the Activation of the Neck Extensors in People With Chronic Neck Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Static exercise for emphasized neck extensors
- Procedure: Dynamic exercise for emphasized neck extensors
- Procedure: Static exercise for general neck extensors
- Procedure: Dynamic exercise for general neck extensors
- Sponsor
- Moisés Giménez Costa
- Organization
- University of Valencia
- Start date
- 2016-10
- Primary completion
- 2017-06-28
- Sex
- Female
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 45 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Mild to moderate pain intensity between 3 and 5 from 10 Visual Analogue Scale)to avoid exacerbation of pain with the neck exercises;. * Poor performance in the neck extensor resistance test as described by Lee et al. (Lee et al., 2005) and Parazza et al. (Parazza et al., 2014) of less than 250 seconds , which justify the application of an exercise program in the neck extensors. Exclusion Criteria: * neurological signs in the upper limb * any contraindication for EMG like known risk of having infection following clinical needle insertion, coagulation disorders or medications affecting coagulation like aspirin * pregnancy * if they had participated in a neck exercise program in the past 12 months or had cervical spine surgery.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02950909