CompletedNot Applicable

Effect of Upper Thoracic Manipulation on Neck Pain and Selected Muscle Activities

Egypt42 participantsStarted 2025-04-15

Plain-language summary

This study will investigate the immediate and short-term effects of upper thoracic manipulation versus sham upper thoracic manipulation on Pain intensity, Cervical ROM, the myoelectric activity of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and upper trapezius muscle during Maximum voluntary isometric contraction.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 40 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion criteria

✓. Male and female subjects diagnosed and classified as having chronic non-specific NP with mobility disorders based on clinical guidelines of NP:
✓. Age between 18-40 (J. Dunning \& Rushton, 2009)
✓. Negative four tests of the Wainner cluster to exclude NP with radiating pain (Wainner et al., 2003).
✓. Hypomobility of at least one of the upper thoracic vertebrae (T1-T4) during segmental mobility assessment (Ssavedra-Hernández et al., 2011).

Exclusion criteria

✕. Subjects diagnosed as cervical radiculopathy or myelopathy (Ssavedra-Hernández et al., 2011).
✕. A history of whiplash injury, past cervical or thoracic surgery, rheumatoid arthritis, spinal fracture, heart disease, a recent significant trauma, and meningitis (Joshi et al., 2020; Puntumetakul et al., 2015).
✕. The presence of contraindications of spinal manipulation as spinal infection and spinal osteoporosis(Ssavedra-Hernández et al., 2011).

What they're measuring

Pain intensity

Timeframe: Pre-intervention, Immediately Post-Intervention, One-week Post-intervention, Two-week post-intervention.

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06926738

SponsorCairo University

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2026-02-01

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