Diaphragm's Manual Therapy in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03223285
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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 this study is to evaluate the effect of diaphragm's manual therapy in addition to cervical spine manual therapy in terms of pain, cervical spine range of motion, trigger points pain pressure threshold, disability and quality of life in patient with chronic aspecific neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Diaphragm's Manual Therapy Reduce Pain in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain: a Randomised Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Real Treatment Group
- Behavioral: Sham Treatment Group
- Sponsor
- Università degli Studi di Ferrara
- Start date
- 2017-05-16
- Primary completion
- 2018-05-16
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Italy
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Neck pain since at least 3 months * Age \> 18 years and \< 65 years * Male or Female Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnancy * Contraindications for manual therapy or inability to complete the treatment * Patients who received a physiotherapy or osteopathic treatment during the last 3 months * Medical diagnosis of rheumatologic disease * Medical diagnosis of respiratory disease (COPD, asthma) * Spine surgery * Medical diagnosis of past or present cancer * Thoracic or abdominal surgery in the last 3 years * Whiplash injuries * Previous cervical fracture * Cervical anatomical changes * Thrombotic events * Body temperature greater than 37 degrees in the previous 48 hours * Obesity (BMI greater than 30)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03223285