Virtual Reality in Chronic Neck Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT06549166
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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 compare the effects of virtual reality, which encourages active neck movements, in individuals with chronic neck pain, with the control group receiving only neck exercises. Participants will be randomly divided into two groups; Half of them will be given only a neck exercises program, and the other half will be given neck exercises and virtual reality.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of Exercise Training and Virtual Reality on Disability, Pain and Joint Position Sense in Individuals With Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Study
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Experimental: VR and exercise
- Other: Sham Comparator: exercise
- Sponsor
- Koç University
- Collaborators
- Biruni University
- Start date
- 2024-09
- Primary completion
- 2025-07
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 45 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: * Ages 18 to 45 * Having a history of non-traumatic neck pain persisting for more than three months * Having a Neck Disability Index score greater than 5 points * Not having participated in a physiotherapy program for at least 3 months * Being able to read and write in Turkish to understand, interpret, and respond to the questionnaires Exclusion Criteria: * Having a surgical history in the neck region * Having cervical spine flexion, extension, and rotation range of motion \<10 degrees * Having a history of rheumatologic, vestibular, neurological, or cardiopulmonary diseases * Vertigo associated with neck pain * Osteoporosis, vertebral fractures,spinal tumors * Presence of radiculopathy or myelopathy * Traumatic spinal cord injury * Neck pain associated with progressive neurological deficits or loss of strength
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06549166