The observation of actions and motor imagery has demonstrated the activation of certain mechanisms similar to those that occur during active movement, which could induce immediate changes in the amplitudes of movement and sensorimotor variables in observed and imagined movements. The main aim of the study was test the immediate effect of a protocol of observed actions and motor imagery on cervical range of motion and pain intensity in patients with non-specific chronic neck pain (NSCNP). Randomized double-blind clinical trial in patients with DCCI at a primary health care center in the Community of Madrid. A random distribution of study subjects was made into two groups: a) cervical motion videos were presented at full range of motion and b) the videos presented showed a range of motion limited to 40%. In both groups, visualization tasks of actions were alternated with internal kinesthetic motor imagery, in periods of 1min in 2 consecutive series and with a total of 12 minutes of intervention. Cervical range of motion was assessed with a cervical goniometer and pain intensity immediately following the intervention with an Analog Visual Scale.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
42
Observation of a video of neck movement and imagination of the same observed movement, feeling the realization of the movement but not developing it.
CS Entrevías
Madrid, Spain
Change in Cervical Range of Movement
CROM goniometer
Time frame: at the beginning and after the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Cervical Pain Disability
Neck Disability Index
Time frame: at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Pain Intensity
Visual Ananlogue Scale: 10cm line, were the left limit means "no pain" and the right limit means "worst imaginable pain"
Time frame: at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Catastrophizism
Pain Catastrophizing Scale
Time frame: at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Health Related Quality of Life
EuroQoL-5D-5L
Time frame: at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
Anxiety and Depression
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADs)
Time frame: at the beginning and end of the intervention, until the end of the study (24 hours)
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