Radiofrequency Therapy for Chronic Neck Pain.
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT05428254
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Brief summary (from the registry)
Background: Chronic neck pain (CNP) is a major health problem affecting individuals with high prevalence and subsequent complications which interfere with the physical, personnel, and psychological status. The capacitive and resistive radiofrequency therapy (CRRT) is a relatively new treatment modality used in rehabilitation with no evidence on its efficacy on chronic neck pain. Objective: The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of the CRRT alone or with manual therapy in the treatment of patients with patients with non-specific CNP. Hypotheses Is the application of the CRRT when applied alone or with combination with manual therapy and exercises effective in decreasing pain and improving the function and strength in patients with non-specific chronic neck pain?? Methods: 60 patients will participle in the study. They will be recruited from the hospital in mecca, Saudi Arabia. They will be randomized into three groups. Group I will be treated with stretching exercises (EX) and manual therapy (Manual + EX group). Group II will be treated with CRRT plus exercises (CRRT+ EX group). Group III will be treated by EX plus manual therapy applied during CRRT for groups (Manual + CRRT+ EX group). For groups II and III, capacitive electrodes will be applied for five minutes. Then the resistive electrodes will be applied for 10 minutes and finally the capacitive will be applied again for another five minutes. Assessment of the neck pain, function, CROM, trigger points, neck muscle strength as well as neck angles will be performed. Measurement will be performed before, after 6 weeks, and 6 months of treatment as follow up measurements. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to compare between and within groups. The level of statistical significance is set as P\<0.05.
Study details
- Official title
- The Effectiveness of Capacitive and Resistive Radiofrequency Therapy Alone or With Manual Therapy in the Treatment of Patients With Chronic Non-specific Mechanical Neck Pain.
- Conditions
- Neck Pain, Posterior
- Interventions
- Other: Capacitive and Resistive Radiofrequency therapy
- Other: Exercise therapy
- Sponsor
- Umm Al-Qura University
- Collaborators
- Deanship of scientific research at Umm Al-Qura university
- Start date
- 2022-07
- Primary completion
- 2022-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 50 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Saudi Arabia
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with chronic neck pain. 2. Age is above 18 years. 3. patients had chronic pain ≥ 3 months, 4. The radiological examination showed that the patients is free from any discogenic cause of pain. 5. Patients are willing to stop medications. 6. Patients accepted to assign informed consent to participate in the current study and will attend the lab twice a week for six successive weeks. Exclusion Criteria: 1. They have any known significant medical conditions such as hypertension, asthma, cardiac disease, or systemic disease that adversely affect them during testing. 2. Previous neck surgery/injection for the last six months. 3. Previous vertebral fracture or malignancy. 4. Patients have a discogenic pain or any other radicular manifestation to the upper limb. 5. Unable to commit study requirements.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05428254