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title: The Effects of Yoga and Motor Control Exercises in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain
nct_id: NCT06568354
overall_status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
phase: NA
sponsor: Hacettepe University
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
primary_condition: Chronic Neck Pain
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ct_last_update_post_date: 2024-08-23
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# The Effects of Yoga and Motor Control Exercises in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

**Official Title:** The Effects of Yoga and Motor Control Exercises on Pain Perception, Function, and Pain Cognition in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

**NCT ID:** [NCT06568354](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06568354)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 39
- **Lead Sponsor:** Hacettepe University
- **Conditions:** Chronic Neck Pain
- **Start Date:** 2024-09-01
- **Completion Date:** 2025-02-28
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2024-08-23

## Brief Summary

Identification of the effects of yoga and motor control exercises on pain intensity, pain sensitivity, function, and pain cognition in individuals with neck pain.

## Detailed Description

Patients participating in the study were divided into two parallel groups. The patients in the motor control exercise group were instructed to perform motor control exercises, which consist of strengthening of the deep cervical flexors, deep cervical extensors, and axioscapular muscles; stretching exercises; postural correction exercises, and patients in the yoga group were instructed to perform a yoga program, which consists of breathing, relaxation, and flexibility exercises.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Maximum age:** 65 Years
- **Sex:** ALL
- **Healthy Volunteers:** No

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Inclusion Criteria:

* Non-specific neck pain
* Must be pain at least 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* History of any cervical spine surgery
* Presence of neurological deficit
* Having been diagnosed with cardiovascular or systemic diseases that would prevent him/her from taking exercise training.
* Inflammatory, infectious, or tumoral disease of the vertebra
* Severe/progressive scoliosis, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis
* had been diagnosed with a neurological disease
* were currently pregnant.
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## Arms

- **Yoga Group** (ACTIVE_COMPARATOR) — A yoga exercise program will be applied in two sessions per week, a total of eight weeks.
- **Motor Control Exercise Group** (ACTIVE_COMPARATOR) — Motor control exercise program will be applied two sessions per week, totally eight week.

## Interventions

- **Yoga** (OTHER) — The yoga program was applied to all patients in this group, accompanied by a physiotherapist. Sessions included selected breathing, warm-up, and relaxation exercises.
- **Motor control exercises** (OTHER) — Motor control exercises with three different progressive phases were applied to all patients in this group accompanied by a physiotherapist.

## Primary Outcomes

- **Changes in Functional Disability** _(time frame: Change from baseline in functional status at 8 weeks)_ — The Neck Disability Index, modified from the Oswestry Low Back Pain Questionnaire and adapted to the cervical region by Vernon et al. in 1991, will be used to assess disability due to neck pain. In the neck disability index, a score of 0-4 is defined as no disability, a score of 5-14 is defined as mild disability, a score of 15-24 is defined as moderate disability, a score of 25-43 is defined as severe disability and a score above 35 is defined as total disability.

## Secondary Outcomes

- **Changes in Pain Intensity** _(time frame: Change from baseline in pain intensity at 8 weeks)_
- **Changes in Pain Sensitivity** _(time frame: Change from baseline in pain sensitivity at 8 weeks)_
- **Changes in Alexithymia** _(time frame: Change from baseline in alexithymia at 8 weeks)_
- **Changes in Cognitive Function** _(time frame: Change from baseline in cognitive function at 8 weeks)_
- **Changes in Pain Catastrophizing** _(time frame: Change from baseline in pain catastrophizing at 8 weeks])_
- **Changes in Kinesiophobia** _(time frame: Change from baseline in kinesiophobia at 8 weeks)_
- **Changes in Neck Awareness** _(time frame: Change from baseline in neck awareness at 8 weeks])_
- **Changes in Body Awareness** _(time frame: Change from baseline in body awareness at 8 weeks)_
- **Changes in Central Sensitization** _(time frame: Change from baseline in central sensitization at 8 weeks)_
- **Changes in Hand Grip Strength** _(time frame: Change from baseline in hand grip strength at 8 weeks)_

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