Mckenzie and Rhythmical Stabilization Technique on Chronic Neck Pain

Overview

The study will be randomized clinical trial. Total 40 subjects will be assigned randomly by using non probability convenient into two groups. Group A will be given McKenzie protocol, with conventional physiotherapy treatment while Group B is Rhythmic stabilization group who will receive rhythmic stabilization, with conventional physiotherapy. After confirmation of diagnosis with medical history and physical examination numeric pain rating scale (NPRS) and Neck disability index (NDI) would be used as an outcome measure tools for pain and disability respectively. Measure will be taken by goniometer. After data collection from defined study setting,data will be entered and analyzed at Riphah International University, Lahore.

Neck pain is a very common ailment that results in a great deal of suffering, impairment, and financial expense. The International Association for the Study of Pain is defined as Pain perceived as arising from anywhere within the region bounded superiorly by superior nuchal line, inferior by an unoriginally transverse line through the tip of first thoracic spinous process, and laterally by sagittal plane tangential to the lateral border of neck. According to the study's findings, 69% of Balochistan University undergraduate students in Quetta, Pakistan, experienced neck pain. Pain in many cervical spine structures has the potential to become chronic neck pain. In epidemiologic research, pain is considered chronic if it lasts more than three months to six months, or five years. McKenzie's treatment regimens were first used in Sweden in 1985 to address mechanical spine patient issues. For these kinds of patients, protocols were often employed in the 1990s. Repeated neck retraction exercises considerably lessen the pain and restore the cervical spine's lordosis curve in individuals with spinal pain. Rhythmic Stabilization is characterized by isometric contractions against the resistance provided by the therapist, with the subject trying to maintain their position as the therapist changes the direction of resistance. Both techniques are effective in pain and range of motion in chronic neck pain. McKenzie protocol and rhythmic stabilization are both studied individually before but their effects are not compared previously.