Effectiveness of Various Electrotherapy Methods in Treating People With Cervical Spine Pain Syndrome.

Effectiveness of Various Electrotherapy Methods in Treating People With Cervical Spine Pain Syndrome.

Effectiveness of Various Electrotherapy Methods in Treating People With Cervical Spine Pain Syndrome.

Volunteers will take part in the study; Students of the university in the area of Rzeszow reporting chronic spinal ailments participation in remote learning. Applicant participants will be randomised into 3 groups of subjected to various electrotherapy procedures.

Study participants will be tested: Before a series of electrotherapy treatments. 7 to 10 days after the end of electrotherapy. 3 months after the end of electrotherapy. The study will use a self-authored survey taking into account: basic personal data (age, gender, value and BMI, lifestyle and degree of load on the cervical spine), information on the nature, intensity and frequency of the presence of pain in the spine cervical system, taking into account possible adverse reactions a questionnaire for subcjective assessment of the state of the spine Neck Disability Index, measuring the tone of the vertebral muscles in the cervical (myotonometer), a visual analog scale used to assess the severity of symptoms (Visual Analog Scale -VAS) Intervention; irradiation of the neck area with a sollux lamp with a blue filter individual exercises conducted according to the prepared author's mobility improvement program electrotherapy treatments: Trabert currents TENS currents (conventional) TENS currents (pseudo-acupuncture)

The study will include healthy volunteers, students of the university in the area of Rzeszów with cervical spine pain syndrome caused by distance learning.

Participants of all 4 groups will benefit from a unified kinesiotherapeutic program. Then, after the randomization, participants will undergo treatments, but they will not know what type of therapy they will undergo.

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Conventional TENS method).

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Pseudo-acupuncture TENS method).

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Trabert ultrastimulation method).

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and placebo electrotherapy.

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Conventional TENS method).

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Pseudo-acupuncture TENS method).

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy (Trabert ultrastimulation method).

One of the four groups created during randomization will undergo a unified program of kinesiotherapy and placebo electrotherapy.

A Visual Analog Scale used to assess the severity of symptoms. It enables the Patient to fine-tune the pain level on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is no pain at all and 10 is the maximum imaginable.

A Visual Analog Scale used to assess the severity of symptoms. It enables the Patient to fine-tune the pain level on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is no pain at all and 10 is the maximum imaginable.

A Visual Analog Scale used to assess the severity of symptoms. It enables the Patient to fine-tune the pain level on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is no pain at all and 10 is the maximum imaginable.

Inclusion Criteria: informed written consent of the patient to participate in the study no contraindications to electrotherapy in the area of the cervical spine; Exclusion Criteria: poor tolerance of electrotherapy treatments; breaks between consecutive treatments longer than 3 days; failure to complete a series of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy treatments; use of any stimulants during the observation period.

Laboratorium Czynników Fizykalnych w Rehabilitacji w Przyrodniczo-Medycznym Centrum Badań Innowacyjnych Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego

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In the study included adults with chronic neck pain (lasting > 12 weeks) that compared TENS alone or in combination with other treatments versus active or inactive treatments. The primary outcomes were pain, disability and adverse events.

The objective of this study will be to evaluate the clinical effects of adding high- and low-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in a program of specific therapeutic exercises for the treatment of patients with chronic neck pain.