The Effect of Adding Auditory Information on Head Movements in People With Non-traumatic Neck Pain

Launched by AALBORG UNIVERSITY · Aug 31, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is looking into how adding sounds, or auditory information, might affect the way people with neck pain move their heads. The goal is to see if these sounds can help improve movement in individuals who experience neck pain without any clear cause, known as idiopathic neck pain. The study will involve participants aged between 18 and 62, and it will include both those with neck pain and a control group of healthy individuals.

To be eligible for the trial, participants with neck pain must have difficulties moving their head or feel pain when their neck is touched. Those in the control group should not have experienced any neck or shoulder pain in the past six months. Participants will need to be able to understand Danish or English and must not have any recent injuries, surgeries, or certain health conditions that could affect the results. If you decide to participate, you can expect to take part in tests that explore how sounds might influence your neck movements. The trial is not currently recruiting, but it aims to gather valuable information that could help improve treatments for neck pain in the future.

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Eligibility criteria

• Control group:
• Inclusion Criteria (Control):
• • Able to speak, read and understand Danish/English
• Exclusion Criteria (Control):
• • Pain from the neck or shoulder area during the past 6 months
• • Experience of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) during the week leading up to the test session
• • Former surgery in neck or shoulder
• • Current or previous chronic or recurrent pain condition that could affect the results
• • Pregnancy
• • Drug addiction defined as the use of cannabis, opioids or other drugs
• • Previous neurologic, musculoskeletal or mental illnesses that could affect the results
• • Regular use of analgesics
• • Abnormally disrupted sleep in the last 24 hours preceding the experiment
• • Lack of ability to cooperate
• Neck pain group:
• Inclusion Criteria (Neck Pain):
• • Idiopathic neck pain
• • Able to speak, read and understand Danish/English
• • Reduced/painful active range of motion of the head and/or painful reaction to palpation of the neck at the time of inclusion
• Exclusion Criteria (Neck Pain):
• • Experience of DOMS during the week leading up to the test session
• • Former surgery in neck or shoulder
• • Pregnancy
• • Drug addiction defined as the use of cannabis, opioids or other drugs
• • Previous neurologic, musculoskeletal (other than neck pain) or mental illnesses that could affect the results
• • Abnormally disrupted sleep in the 24 hours preceding the experiment
• • Lack of ability to cooperate