Call for Papers : Volume 15, Issue 03, March 2024, Open Access; Impact Factor; Peer Reviewed Journal; Fast Publication

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Neuromuscular and low frequency ultrasound treatment in chronic and subacute neck pain

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Neck pain is a major cause of reduced quality of life and a serious public health problem because of its high prevalence and its costs in terms of health care. Specific conservative treatments, both for subacute and chronic phases, include patient education, stretching exercises, pharmacological therapies, intra-articular injections, ultrasound therapy, myofascial manual therapy, electrotherapy, acupuncture and ischemic compression. Aim of this study is to assess the effect of treatment with ultrasound (Us) alone, with manual neuromuscular therapy (Nm) alone and with ultrasound in combination with the manual therapy Neuromuscular (Us-Nm) in subjects with mechanical subacute or chronic neck pain. According to this thirty subjects were randomly assigned to one of three different treatment groups (Us; Nm; Us-Nm). The assessment was performed by the Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) and Neck Disability Index (NDI). The results of this study showed how all the treated groups had a significant improvement in the subjective feeling of pain and the related disability, at the end of the 4 weeks of treatment (T1); these results showed a stabilization in the midterm follow-up (T2). In group 2 (Nm treatment only) was also found a significant reduction of disability and pain during the time lapse between the end of treatment and the subsequent follow up. These evidences lead us to confirm the effectiveness of both treatments applied both separately or together. However, the treatment with neuromuscular manual therapy appears to be more effective in the long term, inducing a further improvement of all symptoms even after two weeks of discontinuation of treatment.

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Rosa Grazia Bellomo, Giovanni Barassi, Christianpasquale Visciano, Giacomo Melle, Piera Attilia Di Felice, Alexandra Di Stefano and Raoul Saggini
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