NCT06206343

Telerehabilitation With Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Chronic Neck Pain:

Completed NA Last updated 23 January 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing TENS application, Tele-rehabilitation treatment program in Chronic Neck Pain in 45 participants. Completed in 10 August 2024.

Timeline

7 April 2024

Primary endpoint
1 June 2024

10 August 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Necmettin Erbakan University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	45
Start date	7 April 2024
Primary completion	1 June 2024
Estimated completion	10 August 2024
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• TENS application, Tele-rehabilitation treatment program

Conditions studied

• Chronic Neck Pain — all drugs for Chronic Neck Pain →
• Telerehabilitation — all drugs for Telerehabilitation →
• Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation — all drugs for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation →
• Pain — all drugs for Pain →

Sponsor

Necmettin Erbakan University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 55, any sex, with Chronic Neck Pain or Telerehabilitation. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Nonspecific chronic neck pain (NCNP) is defined as non-specific neck pain lasting more than three months. It is a very common disease that causes a great obstacle in the daily life activities of individuals in the society. Many conservative treatment methods are used in the treatment of this disease. Among these treatment methods, Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is the most widely used modality due to its low cost and many advantages. There are 4 types of TENS: Conventional, Low frequency (Acupuncture), Short intensity, Combined or Burst TENS. Conventional TENS is generally used in the treatment of chronic pain.

Tele-rehabilitation is defined as the delivery of rehabilitation services via online telecommunication technologies. Tele-rehabilitation overcomes many problems such as long distance, traffic, transportation difficulties, high cost, high demand in the public health system, etc. and its popularity is increasing with the developments in technology and telecommunications. The risks and difficulties of accessing physical treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated the necessity of Tele-rehabilitation. Therefore, Tele-rehabilitation is widely used in physiotherapy as well as in many other fields.

Although TENS application is widely used in the treatment of nonspecific chronic neck pain in physiotherapy clinics, there are few studies on Tele-rehabilitation, there are no studies comparing their effectiveness compared to each other in this field. In our research, it is planned to investigate and compare the effectiveness of TENS, which is an easily applied electrotherapy method, and Tele-Rehabilitation, an online rehabilitation tool. In this study, the staff of Nezahat Keleşoğlu Faculty of Health Sciences and Seydişehir Vocational School of Health Services and patients with neck pain who come to the physiotherapy unit of Meram Medical Faculty Hospital will be included in the study. As a result of the power analysis, (48) patients are planned to be included.

Patients will be divided into three as Tele-rehabilitation group and TENS group and Control group. Patients will be evaluated before and after treatment and training.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Investigation of the effectiveness of interactive telerehabilitation and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on pain, functionality, disability and quality of life in patients with nonspecific chronic neck pain: a randomised controlled trial.
   Çankaya M, PourİYamanesh P, Küçükşen S. · · 2025 · PMID 39988923 · DOI 10.1080/17434440.2025.2471444