Influence of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in Patients of Mechanical Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT07266272
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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)
Purpose: The study aimed to determine whether adding extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) to a standardized physiotherapy program provides additional benefits for patients with chronic mechanical neck pain. Specifically, it examined effects on pain intensity, pressure pain threshold (PPT), neck disability index (NDI), cervical active range of motion (AROM), and joint position sense (JPS).
Study details
- Official title
- Influence of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in Patients of Mechanical Neck Pain
- Conditions
- Neck Pain Musculoskeletal
- Neck Pain
- Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy
- Mechanical Neck Pain
- Cervical Pain, Posterior
- Pain Threshold
- Interventions
- Device: Extracorporeal Shockwave therapy
- Other: Exercise
- Sponsor
- Benha University
- Start date
- 2023-07-01
- Primary completion
- 2024-02-25
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 29 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Egypt
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. The patients (both males and females) with chronic non-specific neck pain for more than three months. 2. The patient's age is between 18 and 29 years old. 3. The patient has at least one taut band at the upper fibers of the trapezius as described in assessment procedures. 4. patient's numeric pain rating scale (NPRS) was 3 to 8 out of 10 Exclusion Criteria: 1. Were treated for neck or shoulder pain during the last three months. 2. Had a neck or shoulder operation during the last two years. 3. Had any structural pathology of the cervical spine, such as disk prolapse, spinal stenosis, or cervical spondylosis. 4. Had a traumatic history, instability, and spasmodic torticollis. 5. Had cardiovascular, respiratory, or allergic disease or neck osteoarthritis. 6. Had homeostatic disorders. 7. Fibromyalgia, shoulder diseases (tendonitis, bursitis, capsulitis). 8. Inflammatory rheumatic diseases. 9. Severe psychiatric illness and other diseases that restrict physical loading, and pregnancy (Salo et al., 2010). 10. Patients with vertebrobasilar insufficiency and vertigo.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07266272