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

N/ANot Yet RecruitingNCT06028269

Aalborg University44 enrolled

Overview

This study sets out to investigate the potential effect of auditory disturbances on human movement

Clinicians routinely investigate/test human movement but if/how this is effect by auditory disturbances is unclear. This study sets out to investigate the impact of auditory disturbances on head movements.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Healthy Neck Pain

Interventions

Smartphone playing a soundDEVICE

A sound will be played from a portable device (smartphone) during movement

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 50 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (2)

FysioDanmark Aalborg

Aalborg, Denmark

Dept. Of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University

Gistrup, Denmark

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Range of motion

Range of motion will be assessed during head rotations (i.e. moving the head from a neutral position to end of range in rotation before returning to the start position)

Time frame: During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1

Secondary Outcomes

Head repositioning accuracy

Head repositioning accuracy will be assessed as the error between the starting point and the end point following a head rotation (i.e. moving the head from a neutral position to end of range in rotation before returning to the start position) and will be repressed in degrees.

Time frame: During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1

Quality of head movement

Quality of movement (smoothness) will be determined using calculations of jerk variance (Jerk is the time derivative of acceleration which will be measures using an inertial measurement unit. The measure will be converted to a unitless measure where higher values indicates less smooth movements), assessed during head rotations (i.e. moving the head from a neutral position to end of range in rotation before returning to the start position).

Time frame: During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1

Perceived stiffness during movement

Participants will rate their perceived stiffness during head movement using a 0-100 numerical rating scale, where 0 = no stiffness and 100 = worst stiffness imaginable.

Time frame: During a single test session (approximately 45minutes) at day 1

Perceived difficultness of performing movement

Participants will rate the Perceived difficultness of performing head movements using a 6-point Likert scale going from 0 = no problems, 1 = minimally difficult; 2 = somewhat difficult; 3 = fairly difficult; 4 = very difficult; 5 = unable to perform

Central Contacts

Steffan WM Christensen, PhD

CONTACT

(+45) 99408889 stc@hst.aau.dk

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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