Co-designed neck exercise (EPIC-Neck) vs usual exercise care for people with chronic non-specific neck pain: protocol for a randomised feasibility study with process evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical guidelines recommend that people with chronic non-specific neck pain self-manage symptoms with physiotherapy-led exercise. However, current exercise strategies have modest short-term effects, engagement is poor, and 48% of people continue to experience long-term and recurrent pain. Updated exercise strategies co-produced using complex intervention development frameworks are required that consider the behavioural, psychological, environmental, and technical aspects of exercise prescription and patient adherence to optimise symptom outcomes, long-term engagement, and self-management. This study tests the feasibility and acceptability of the EPIC-Neck programme ("Exercise Prescription Improved through Co-design") which is grounded in evidence and theory and was co-

SUBMITTER: Price J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889939 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature