Manipulation, Exercise, and Self-Care for Neck Pain

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Neck Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to compare three treatments for neck pain: 1) rehabilitative exercise, 2) chiropractic spinal manipulation combined with rehabilitative exercise, and 3) self-care education.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00269360

Run by

Northwestern Health Sciences University

People needed

270

Starts

2001-03-01

Expected to finish

2005-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2007-11-20

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Chronic mechanical neck pain (defined as current episode > 12 weeks' duration).
• Quebec Task Force classifications 1, 2, 3 and 4. This includes patients with neck pain, stiffness or tenderness, with or without musculoskeletal and neurological signs.

You may not qualify if…

• Previous cervical spine surgery
• Neck pain referred from local joint lesions of the lower extremities or from visceral diseases
• Progressive neurological deficits due to nerve root or spinal cord compression
• Existing cardiac disease requiring medical treatment
• Blood clotting disorders
• Diffuse idiopathic hyperostosis
• Infectious and non-infectious inflammatory or destructive tissue changes of the cervical spine
• Presence of significant infectious disease, or other severe disabling health problems
• Substance abuse
• Ongoing treatment for neck pain by other health care providers
• Pregnant or nursing women
• Average neck pain score of less than 30 percentage points
• Pending or current litigation

Where it is running

• Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies — Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

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