NCT04981574

Effectiveness Comparison of Thoracic Thrust Manipulation in People With Neck or Low Back Pain

Completed NA Last updated 28 October 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Massage and stretching on neck area and thoracic thrust manipulation in Neck Pain in 60 participants. Completed in 27 October 2021.

Timeline

4 August 2021

Primary endpoint
29 September 2021

27 October 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Jaén
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	60
Start date	4 August 2021
Primary completion	29 September 2021
Estimated completion	27 October 2021
Sites	1 location across Spain

Drugs / interventions tested

• Massage and stretching on neck area and thoracic thrust manipulation
• Massage and stretching on low back area and thoracic thrust manipulation

Conditions studied

• Neck Pain — all drugs for Neck Pain →
• Low Back Pain — all drugs for Low Back Pain →

Sponsor

University of Jaén

Who can join

Adults 18 to 65, any sex, with Neck Pain or Low Back Pain. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Objective:

To compare the effectiveness of thoracic thrust manipulation, together with massages techniques and stretching, between people with neck pain versus people with low back pain.

Methods:

The research will be performed from August 2021 to October 2021 at the University of Alcala de Henares. (Madrid)

A minimum of forty-six (46) volunteers will participate in this research, and they will be divided in two groups of twenty-three (23). One group will be formed by candidates suffering from neck pain (group A) and the other one by candidate with low back pain (group B).

Both groups will receive the same treatment and specific stretching exercises as applicable in accordance to the pain area, e.g.: group A will get the massage and the stretching exercises more suitable for the neck pain and group B the same but for the low back pain. Nevertheless both groups will receive the same technical thrust manipulation in thoracic area.

All these treatments will be applied of the volunteers at the University of Alcalá.

The treatment includes the following activities:

1. Twenty (20) minutes massage in the pain area, as applicable.
2. Technical thrust manipulation in thoracic area.
3. Ten (10) minutes stretching in accordance to the pain area treated. The stretching shall be repeated twice a week by each volunteer.

A total of six (6) sessions will be carried out during six (6) weeks, one session per week.

Pain, disability, kinesiophobia, HRQoL will be assessed as follow:

1. Before first session. (In this evaluation will be also analyzed demographic variables i.e.: height, weight, age, gender, academic level, smoker/no smoker)
2. Between third and fourth session.
3. After sixth session.
4. Four weeks after sixth session.

Publications & conference data

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