Effectiveness of Manual Myofascial Release Versus Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain"
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT05502406
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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)
Neck pain has a global prevalence of 30%, being the fourth leading cause of disability among general population and is more prevalent among females than males, as per concluded by evidence. It is undoubtedly the need of time, to address its proper treatment and to hinder its recurrence amongst the general population. The current physical therapy management of neck pain is more focused towards achieving the short term goals for the patient rather than addressing and amending the actual cause of its relapse. Manual Myofascial Release is one of the very effective treatment used to release soft tissue and fascial adhesions over the myofascia inorder to relieve chronic neck pain. The study aims to compare this manual treatment against Instrument Assisted soft tissue mobilization in order to determine which of the two provides improved outcome in terms of pain, neck disability and cervical Range of motion.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of Manual Myofascial Release Versus Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain"
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Instrument Assisted Soft tissue Mobilization
- Procedure: Manual Myofascial Release
- Sponsor
- Foundation University Islamabad
- Start date
- 2022-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2023-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 40 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Pakistan
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Male and Female participants belonging to the age group of 18 to 40 years * Participants suffering from neck pain for more than 3months. Exclusion Criteria: * Recent history of Whiplash Injury. * Recent traumatic history of head, cervical spine, shoulder girdle or fractures of the cervical spine or shoulder complex. * History of Cervical Radiculopathy, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, disc prolapse, any other systemic disease or vascular syndrome such as vertebro-basilar Insufficiency. * Diagnosed Fibromyalgia, myopathy or myelopathy * Sensory/Motor dysfunction owing to any neurological pathology in the mid or upper back.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05502406