Effects of Painful Compared to Painless Manual Therapy on Pain Processing in University Students With Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT05680688
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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 purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of provoking pain with manual therapy on pain processing in university students with recurrent or chronic neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Conditioned Pain Modulation Effects of Manual Therapy in University Students With Recurrent or Chronic Neck Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Josue Fernandez Carnero
- Organization
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Start date
- 2023-01-11
- Primary completion
- 2023-02-14
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 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: * University students * Chronic neck pain (persistent pain \> 3 months almost every day of the week) or recurrent neck pain (repeated episodes of neck pain starting \> 3 months ago with pain-free periods) * Non-specific neck pain (pain in the neck region that is not attributable to a known specific such as herniated disc, myelopathy, fractures, spinal stenosis, neoplasm etc. nor is it associated with traumatic causes such as whiplash) * Mean NRS score the last week \> 2/10 and presence of pain on the day of assesment and treatment Exclusion Criteria: * Signs of radiculopathy or neuropathic pain * Neck surgeries * Inflammatory rheumatic * Neurological, cardiorespiratory, oncological or psychiatric disease * Pregnancy * Not being able to read Spanish in order to fill in the questionnaires
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05680688