Cervical Injury Spine
Conditions
Keywords
neck pain, physiotherapy, accidents in itinere, Incapacity for work
Brief summary
Introduction. Neck pain is one of the main causes of incapacity for work. The economic impact of neck pain is considerable due to the cost of medical treatment and physiotherapy. Accidents in itinere, those that occur on the way between home and the workplace, can cause pain and functional impairment. Objective. To analyze the relationship between the time off work following accidents on the way to and from work and the type of treatment received. Material and method. Multicenter retrospective cohort study. Data will be collected from 146 patients. The primary variable of the study will be the time on sick leave (in days), with the type of intervention received (manual therapy or not) being the dependent variable. The secondary variables, estimated as modifying or confounding, will be the intensity of the pain (visual analog scale), sex, age, occupational cervical strain, type of contract (salaried/self-employed) and the number of physiotherapy sessions received.
Interventions
OTHERObservational cohort group
As this is an observational cohort study, there will be no intervention. In this study, only retrospective data will be collected for subsequent analysis. Similarly, the aim is to assess the relationship between the time on sick leave and the type of physiotherapy treatment received by patients. As this is an observational and retrospective cohort study, there is no risk derived from the development of the study for the subjects whose data form part of the study.
Sponsors
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
RETROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients of both sexes * Persons aged 18 to 65 * Patients with a medical diagnosis of neck pain secondary to traffic accidents while commuting * Persons without a medical diagnosis of another associated pathology * Patients whose accident occurred between 2022 and 2024.
Exclusion criteria
* Patients who have received physiotherapy treatment at another centre during the process * Patients who requested voluntary discharge for whatever reason.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Measurement of time off work | Screening visit | The dependent variable, time off work, will be measured in days. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Measurement of the type of employment contract of the patients | Screening visit | The secondary variable, type of employment contract of the patients, will be collected in a dichotomous qualitative variable (salaried/self-employed) |
| Measuring the age of the patients | Screening visit | The secondary variable, age of the patients, will be collected in a quantitative variable of completed years (measured in days) |
| Measurement of patients' occupational cervical strain | Screening visit | The secondary variable, patients' cervical strain , will be collected in a qualitative variable (Yes/No) depending on the type of work of the patients, their daily work may or may not require cervical strain. |
| Measuring the gender of patients | Screening visit | The secondary variable, the gender of patients, will be collected in a qualitative variable (Female/Male). |
| Measurement of pain intensity at the time of medical discharge | Screening visit | The secondary variable, pain intensity at the time of medical discharge, will be collected with the recording of the visual analog scale (range 0-10) |
| Measurement of the number of physiotherapy sessions received | Screening visit | The secondary variable, number of physiotherapy sessions received, will be measured quantitatively (in days of treatment administration). This value will be collected from the physiotherapy record |
| Measurement of type of intervention received | Screening visit | The secondary variable, type of intervention received, will be evaluated with a dichotomous coding: manual therapy or no manual therapy. |
Countries
Spain
Outcome results
None listed