Neck Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Laterality task, neck pain
Brief summary
Chronic neck pain is one of the most common causes of pain, affecting 15% of the adult population, and the fourth leading cause of disability. The recognition of laterality is the ability to recognize a part of the body that belongs to the left or right which is used as a tool to create a normal process of motor planning.
Detailed description
The most consistent data come from the investigation of the primary motor cortex, in which the cortical representations of the altered body part are affected when there is chronic pain. Occasionally, the primary motor cortex is smaller on the affected side than on the contralateral side. Recognition of the body schema is altered in the presence of painful disorders. The most common way of assessing the body schema is by motor imagery through the laterality discrimination of the left and right.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALNeck Laterality
Patients who belonged to the neck group performed the recognition of laterality with certain parameters. The execution of the recognition began with a test to familiarize themselves with the program at the Basic level and then followed the laterality test. It was done with 20 images and 4 seconds for each image in the Vanilla program
BEHAVIORALFoot Laterality
Patients who belonged to the foot group performed the recognition of laterality with certain parameters. The execution of the recognition began with a test to familiarize themselves with the program at the Basic level and then followed the laterality test. It was done with 20 images and 4 seconds for each image in the Vanilla program
Sponsors
Centro Universitario La Salle
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* The inclusion criteria were as follows: a) men and women aged between 18- and 65-years b) medical diagnosis of Non-Specific Chronic Neck Pain with more than 6 months of evolution of neck pain.
Exclusion criteria
*
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Response time | Immediately post-intervention | Changes in the time response. Time response is defined as the time between the image appearance and the subject response. |
| Accuracy | Immediately post-intervention | Changes in the accuracy at the end of the intervention. Accuracy must be taken as the precision of the response when a subject say wether the image is right or left. It is measured by percentage of success. |
| Joint Position Error | Immediately post-intervention | Changes in the joint position error at the end of the intervention. It is measured on centimeters. |
| Cervical Active Range of Motion | immediately post-intervention | Changes the cervical active range of motion at the end of the intervention. It is measured on centimeters. |
Outcome results
None listed