Mental practice in isolation improves cervical joint position sense in patients with chronic neck pain: a randomized single-blind placebo trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The main objective of this trial was to assess whether action observation (AO) training and motor imagery (MI) produced changes in the cervical joint position sense (CJPS) both at the end of the intervention and 10 min postintervention compared with a placebo intervention in patients with nonspecific chronic neck pain (NSCNP).

Methods

A single-blind placebo clinical trial was designed. A total of 30 patients with NSCNP were randomly assigned to the AO group, MI group or placebo observation (PO) group. CJPS in flexion, extension and rotation movements in both planes were the main variables.

Results

The results obtained in the vertical plane showed that the AO group obtained greater improvements than the PO group in the CJPS in terms of cervical extension move

SUBMITTER: Cuenca-Martinez F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6745187 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature