Effectiveness of Virtual Reality in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04014998
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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)
Virtual reality application has been increasing in recent years for pain control, distraction in wound care, treatment of anxiety disorders and support for physical rehabilitation. For example, it has been found to be effective in reducing pain when used in addition to medical treatment during bandaging of severe burns. The studies related with chronic pain patients were stated that virtual reality application was found to be interactive and fun by patients. Therefore, The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of virtual reality on pain threshold, disability, balance, proprioception, exercise sustainability, muscular performance in neck region, quality of life and anxiety / depression in addition to the exercise program that includes stabilization exercises in patients with chronic neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Investigation of the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Applications in Addition to Exercise Program in People With Chronic Neck Pain
- Conditions
- Pain, Neck
- Virtual Reality
- Proprioception
- Balance
- Interventions
- Other: Virtual Reality
- Sponsor
- Hacettepe University
- Start date
- 2020-10-30
- Primary completion
- 2021-09-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * to have pain more than 3 months, * to be sedentary, * to have Neck Disability Index score more than 10. Exclusion Criteria: * to have neurological deficits, vestibular pathology, history of surgery.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04014998