Telerehabilitation and Conventional Physiotherapy Program for Caregivers of Individuals With Special Needs
Telerehabilitation, Neck Pain
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Telerehabilitation focused on measuring individual with special needs, back pain
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Being between 20-60 years old, Being a special needs child caregiver, Mechanical neck and back pain lasting 3 months or longer Exclusion Criteria: Those who are caregivers of hearing and visually impaired children, Having previously undergone surgery in the cervical region, Patients with a history of inflammatory or infective arthritis in the cervical spine, Congenital spinal cord anomaly, history of malignancy, Having neuropathic pain Radiculopathy, myelopathy or other neurological disorders Those with chronic lung disease Vestibular disorders, Those with a history of continuous drug use, Individuals who have been involved in an exercise or physiotherapy program in the last 3 months, He will not be able to read the scales and the evaluation parameters will be excluded from the study.
Sites / Locations
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Experimental
No Intervention
Telereahabilitation arm
conventional physiotherapy arm
control arm
The group receiving telerehabilitation will be given a video CD containing the exercise program that will be changed every 3 weeks, and in the first week of each change program, daily sessions will be held collectively via video conferencing under the supervision of a physiotherapist. In the first 3 weeks of the 12-week exercise program, neck joint movements, neck stretching exercises and posture exercises will be given. Between weeks 4-6, in addition to the exercises in the first 3 weeks, cervical and scapular stabilization exercises will be given in the following weeks. In the following weeks, between weeks 7-9, 4-way strengthening exercises will be included in the program in addition to the exercises performed in the previous weeks. Cervical and scapular stabilization exercises and strengthening exercises will be performed in the following weeks between weeks 10-12, Exercises will be done 10 repetitions 3 times a day.
Superficial heat (infrared), "Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation" (TENS), therapeutic ultrasound and Hotpack application will be applied to the traditional treatment group. The patients receive 20 sessions in total, 5 days a week and 1 session daily for 4 weeks; You will receive superficial heat (infrared), TENS, therapeutic US and Hotpack treatment. . Superficial heat infrared will be applied to the tissue for 20 minutes. Conventional TENS will be applied. Therapeutic US will be applied to the cervical and thoracic region with an ultrasound device for 5 minutes at 3mHz, 1W/cm² treatment dosage, in continuous mode. Hotpack application will be done for 20 minutes. At the end of the 20 sessions, a brochure containing video-supported exercises will be given to the patients in the first group and they will be asked to do it for 12 weeks without follow-up.
The third group, the control group, will not receive any intervention and will be asked to continue their daily lives.