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Brief summary
This study will include participants aged 18 to 40 with chronic neck pain with random allocation to either PNF symmetrical scapula-pelvis pattern exercises or a program using sub-occipital muscle inhibition and hamstring stretching. Treatments will be delivered three times a week for six weeks, with assessments at the start, after the first session and at the end. The study aims to compare which approach provides better improvement in patients with chronic neck pain, with the hypothesis that PNF patterns will lead to superior outcomes.
Interventions
Intervention will be provided with 18 sessions (3 sessions per week for 6 weeks). The total duration of the session will 20 minutes. A Physical Therapist with more than 13 years of clinical experience will provide the intervention. Group A (Intervention/ experimental group) will receive Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation, Dynamic Reversal of Antagonists using Symmetrical Scapula-Pelvis Patterns. In these, the scapula and pelvis move in the same diagonal but in opposite movement pattern named as scapular anterior elevation–pelvic posterior depression and Scapular posterior depression–pelvic anterior elevation. • Patient will be in right side lying position. • The therapist will perform left side passive scapular anterior elevation–pelvic posterior depression (SAE-PPD) and Scapular posterior depression–pelvic anterior elevation (SPD-PAE) on patients to demonstrate the movement. • Then, therapist will ask the patient to perform the same move against resistance. • Then the therapist will resist the patient’s movement in one direction. • As the end of the desired range of motion approaches the therapist will reverse one grip on the moving segment and will give a command to prepare for the change of direction. • At the end of the desired movement the therapist will give the action command to reverse direction to SPD-PAE, without relaxation, and will give resistance to the new motion starting with the distal part. • When the patient begins moving in the opposite direction the therapist reverses the second grip so all resistance opposes the new direction. • Same procedure will be repeated on another side. • There will 10 repetitions and 3 sets exercises for each side, 20 second rest between two sets, The self-report checklist will be used with therapist supervision and patient feedback to monitor intervention fidelity and adherence to the intervention.
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Individuals with chronic neck pain (pain for > 3 month) along with hamstring tightness at the time of enrolment .
Exclusion criteria
Any history related to spinal surgery Previous administration of epidural injections Neck pain due to specific pathology Patients with radiculopathy or myelopathy Traumatic spinal cord injury Neck pain associated with progressive neurological deficit or loss of strength.