Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery on Cervical Position Sense and Balance in Mechanical Neck Pain

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Overview

To investigate the Effect of Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Training on Cervical Position Sense and Balance in Mechanical Neck Pain

Thirty patients with Mechanical Neck Pain will participate in this study. The patients will randomly be divided into two equal groups; the control group which received the selected exercise program and the study group received the same exercise training program in addition to Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Training, three times per week for four weeks. The evaluation methods are cervical joint position error test, neck disability index, multidirectional reach test and visual analogue scale

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Mechanical Neck Pain

Interventions

selected exercise programOTHER

therapeutic ultrasound, Static neck exercise, balance exercises

Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery TrainingOTHER

Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Training During kinesthetic imagery, the participants were asked to feel their body parts without any body motion. During visual imagery, the participants were asked to perform a visual presentation of the motion without any body motion.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 35 YearsMax age: 50 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * thirty patients with mechanical neck pain, * Age will range as (35:50) years old * body mass index (18:29) Exclusion Criteria: * difficulty to communicate or to understand program instructions * any other neurological deficits or orthopaedic abnormalities, * secondary musculoskeletal complication * Cervical disc prolapses * Any other cervical problem * Spinal stenosis * Previous spinal surgery

Locations (1)

Lama Saad El-Din Mahmoud

Al Jīzah, Select State, Egypt

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

cervical joint position error test

The subject will be instructed to perform an active head rotation to one side, after which returns back to the neutral or starting head position. The test will be performed in a 3 trials in each direction

Time frame: four weeks

Neck disability index

includes 10 items as follows: Pain Intensity, Personal Care, Lifting, Reading, Headaches, Concentration, Work, Driving, Sleeping, and Recreation, with a score (0:5) for every point. The maximum score is 50, with the interpretation scoring (no disability = 0: 4, mild disability 5:14, moderate disability 15:24, severe disability 25: 34 and complete disability above 34

Time frame: four weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Visual analogue scale for pain (VAS-P)

is a method for measuring the intensity of pain on a horizontal straight line of fixed length (10 cm), as the left end of the line showed the greatest pain score \& the right end showed the least pain scores, then the patient was asked to put a mark, on the line according to his/her pain sensation, with a higher score representing the higher level of pain

Time frame: four weeks

multidirectional reach test

The Multi-Directional Reach Test (MDRT) measures balance and the limits of stability in the anterior-posterior and medial-lateral directions by testing how far an individual can voluntarily reach forward, to the right, to the left, and lean backward, while standing with their feet flat on the ground, shoulder-width apart

Time frame: four weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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