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Use of ThermaCare Heat Wraps and Ibuprofen as an Adjunct to Physical Therapy for Neck Pain

Information source: Future Sciene Technology
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Condition(s) targeted: Heat; Pain

Intervention: thermacare heat wraps (Device); Ibuprofen (Drug)

Phase: Phase 4

Status: Recruiting

Sponsored by: Future Sciene Technology

Official(s) and/or principal investigator(s):
Iman Khowailed, DSc, Study Chair, Affiliation: Touro University

Overall contact:
jerrold Petrofsky, Ph D, Phone: 7143215424, Email: jpetrofsky@llu.edu

Summary

Objective- To see if the use of heat at home between physical therapy sessions results in better therapy outcomes in people with acute neck pain. Setting: Physical Therapy outpatient rehabilitation center Participants: 90 people with acute nonspecific neck pain broken into 4 groups. Intervention: All subjects will undergo 45 minutes of therapy 2 times per week for 2 weeks. All subjects will accomplish 1 hour of therapeutic exercise at home on days when there is no therapy. Thirty of the subjects will use ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 30 used Ibuprofen plus ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 15 will use a sham heat wrap and an Ibuprofen placebo each day (1200 mg / day) and the last 15 will be controls with conventional physical therapy.

Clinical Details

Official title: Use of ThermaCare Heat Wraps and Ibuprofen as an Adjunct to Physical Therapy for Neck Pain

Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Primary outcome: analog visual pain scales

Secondary outcome: compliance for home exercise

Detailed description: Neck pain patients admitted to an outpatient physical therapy program will be randomly assigned to either a control or 3 experimental groups. An initial evaluation and rehabilitation program will be established which includes a home exercise program. Therapy will be 2 days per week for 2 weeks. Thirty of the subjects will use ThermaCare continuous heat neck wraps applied for 6 hours before home exercise, 30 will use ibuprofen (1200 mg /day given in 3 dosages) plus ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 15 will use a sham heat wrap and a Ibuprofen placebo each day and the last 15 will have conventional therapy. Intervention with heat or Ibuprofen will be used on days that they are not being treated in the clinic. All groups will be evaluated initially and after 2 weeks. They will be given home exercise and heat compliance logs and analog visual pain scales to be filled out each night before exercise and, if they used heat, before and after heat will be applied. The physical therapist will also be asked to evaluate their home compliance, pain and the benefit to them from the heat packs. Subjects will complete a neck disability questionnaire at the beginning and end of the study. At the end of the two weeks of treatment, a multivariate ANOVA will be performed to compare changes in home exercise compliance, functional level, pain level, range of motion, and strength. A statistical level of p≤.05 is considered predictive of a difference between groups.

Eligibility

Minimum age: 18 Years. Maximum age: 80 Years. Gender(s): Both.

Criteria:

Inclusion Criteria:

- age 18-80 years

Exclusion Criteria:

- those with neck pain caused by fractures or spinal damage

- those who have undergone neck surgery within the last year

- those with radiculopathy or those with diagnosed diabetes were excluded from this

study

Locations and Contacts

jerrold Petrofsky, Ph D, Phone: 7143215424, Email: jpetrofsky@llu.edu

Future Sciecne Technology, Henderson, Nevada 89113, United States; Recruiting
Additional Information

Starting date: November 2014
Last updated: December 29, 2014

Page last updated: August 23, 2015

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