NCT04125901

Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise in High School Students With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain

Completed NA Last updated 23 February 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise in Chronic Neck Pain in 127 participants. Completed in 30 November 2020.

Timeline

1 October 2019

Primary endpoint
30 June 2020

30 November 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Aveiro University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	127
Start date	1 October 2019
Primary completion	30 June 2020
Estimated completion	30 November 2020
Sites	3 locations across Portugal

Drugs / interventions tested

• Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise
• Exercise

Conditions studied

• Chronic Neck Pain — all drugs for Chronic Neck Pain →

Sponsor

Aveiro University

Who can join

Adults 13 to 20, any sex, with Chronic Neck Pain. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Musculoskeletal pain can affect up to 40% of children and adolescents. Neck pain (NP) is one of the most prevalent painful conditions and evidence suggests that its prevalence has increased in recent decades in adolescents aged 16 to 18 years, from 22.9% in 1991 to 29.5% in 2011. Interventions based on pain neuroscience education have emerged as promising strategies in chronic pain conditions.In adults this intervention has been explored in many pain conditions, including musculoskeletal pain, but there is only one pilot study in adolescents with chronic NP and one case study in adolescents with fibromyalgia.

Thus, the main objective of the present study is:

(i) To compare the effectiveness of an education program based on pain neuroscience education and exercise versus exercise alone, in decreasing pain intensity in secondary school students with chronic and idiopathic NP immediately after the intervention and at 6 months.

The secondary objectives are to:

i) Compare the effectiveness of these programs immediately after the intervention and at 6 months in i) disability, ii) sleep, iii) pain catastrophizing, iv) fear of movement, v) self-efficacy, vi) central sensitization vii) the strength of the deep neck flexors and extensors muscles and stabilizers of the scapula; and viii) the pressure pain threshold between the two intervention groups;

ii) Explore possible predictors of response to treatment.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.