Preventive Care of Chronic Cervical Pain and Disabilities - Full Text View

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER)
Information provided by:	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00566930

Purpose

The aim of this study is to determine which of tertiary prevention spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) or a home exercise program is the more efficient approach to reduce pain and increase functional capacity, quality of life and general health condition. To do so, 60 participants with chronic cervical pain, will be recruited and divided into 3 groups according to the intervention they will receive: control group, experimental group 1 who will receive preventive chiropractic care in the form of spinal manipulations and experimental group 2 will have to perform an individualized home exercise program on a daily basis. We hypothesize that a group of patient receiving SMT + a home exercise program will present less pain and functional disabilities over a 1 year period. The innovative value of this project is mainly related to the fact that it will generate new and potentially very useful data concerning the clinical significance of preventive chiropractic care. Moreover, such data will be beneficial to our profession as chiropractic makes a step towards prevention, wellness and public health.

Condition	Intervention
Neck Pain	Other: spinal manipulation Other: Spinal manipulation + exercises

MedlinePlus related topics: Exercise and Physical Fitness Neck Injuries and Disorders

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Randomized, Double Blind (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Active Control, Factorial Assignment
Official Title:	Preventive Care of Chronic Cervical Pain and Disabilities; Comparison of Spinal Manipulative Therapy and Individualized Home Exercise Programs

Further study details as provided by Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Pain, functional disabilities [ Time Frame: One year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Fear avoidance belief, Quality of life, Range of motion [ Time Frame: One year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment:	115
Study Start Date:	October 2007
Estimated Study Completion Date:	January 2009

Arms	Assigned Interventions
1: No Intervention
2: Active Comparator spinal manipulation	Other: spinal manipulation Monthly cervical spinal manipulation
3: Experimental Spinal manipulation + exercises	Other: Spinal manipulation + exercises Monthly cervical spine manipulation and daily home exercises

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years to 60 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Adults between 18 and 60 years old from the city and the surrounding Trois-Rivières with chronic cervical pain of non-traumatic origin (chronic or recurrent cervical pain that lasted at least 6 months)

Exclusion Criteria:

Exclusion criteria for the project are:

Surgery to the cervical spine
Neoplasms
Severe osteoarthritis
Ankylosing spondylitis
Hypertension
Referred pain in the cervical area
Central or peripheric nervous system dysfunction
Vascular disease
Treated cardiovascular disease
Inflammatory or infectious disease of the cervical spine
Metabolic or endocrine diseases
Pregnancy
Specific rehabilitation training for the neck or already under manual therapy for neck pain
Patient suffering from dizziness, vertigo or headache suspected to be cervicogenic or of unknown origin will not be involved in the study.

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00566930

Contacts

Contact: Martin Descarreaux, PhD

(819) 376-5011 ext 3977

martin.descarreaux@uqtr.ca

Locations

Canada, Quebec
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	Recruiting
Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, G9A 1R2
Principal Investigator: Martin Descarreaux, PhD

Sponsors and Collaborators

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER)

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Martin Descarreaux, PhD

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

More Information

Responsible Party:	Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres ( Martin Descarreaux )
Study ID Numbers:	Chronic cervical pain UQTR, FCER Grant #06-03-02
Study First Received:	November 30, 2007
Last Updated:	December 3, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00566930
Health Authority:	Canada: Ethics Review Committee

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Signs and Symptoms
Neck Pain
Neurologic Manifestations
Pain

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Nervous System Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009