The Wearable Postural Feedback Devices Combined With Exercise in Office Workers With Chronic Neck Pain

Launched by ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY - CERRAHPASA · Jun 7, 2024

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Treatment of work-related musculoskeletal disorders can be challenging due to multiple underlying risk factors like physical workload, poor posture, altered sensorimotor control, biopsychosocial conditions. When the information provided by the individual's own sensory system is insufficient, the use of extrinsic feedback has been proposed as an option to reduce sensorimotor discomfort and thus improve movement control. Due to the progress in miniaturization technology of the microelectromechanical system, postural feedback devices have been developed.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Complained of neck pain during work for at least 3 months,
• • Neck pain severity of 3 and above according to the Numerical Pain Rating Scale,
• • Office worker between the ages of 25-55,
• • Full-time and regular desk worker for the last 3 years,
• • Participants who use a computer at a desk for at least 3 hours a day will be included.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Having neurological and rheumatologic chronic diseases,
• • Receiving physical therapy in the last 6 months
• • History of trauma to the upper extremities and spine,
• • Having diagnoses such as thoracic outlet, cervical rib, vertebrobasilar artery insufficiency,
• • History of cervical spine surgery,
• • Having suffered a whiplash injury,
• • Diagnosed cervical disc and spine pathologies (such as radiculopathy, myelopathy, fracture, infection, tumor, inflammatory diseases, osteoporosis)