Use of ThermaCare Heat Wraps and Ibuprofen as an Adjunct to Physical Therapy for Neck Pain

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- those with neck pain caused by fractures or spinal damage


- those who have undergone neck surgery within the last year


- those with radiculopathy or those with diagnosed diabetes were excluded from this
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Heat, PainUse of ThermaCare Heat Wraps and Ibuprofen as an Adjunct to Physical Therapy for Neck Pain
NCT02327338
  1. Henderson, Nevada
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18 Years+
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Brief Title  ICMJE Use of ThermaCare Heat Wraps and Ibuprofen as an Adjunct to Physical Therapy for Neck Pain
Official Title  ICMJE Use of ThermaCare Heat Wraps and Ibuprofen as an Adjunct to Physical Therapy for Neck Pain
Brief Summary

Objective- To see if the use of heat at home between physical therapy sessions results in better therapy outcomes in people with acute neck pain.

Setting: Physical Therapy outpatient rehabilitation center Participants: 90 people with acute nonspecific neck pain broken into 4 groups. Intervention: All subjects will undergo 45 minutes of therapy 2 times per week for 2 weeks. All subjects will accomplish 1 hour of therapeutic exercise at home on days when there is no therapy. Thirty of the subjects will use ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 30 used Ibuprofen plus ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 15 will use a sham heat wrap and an Ibuprofen placebo each day (1200 mg / day) and the last 15 will be controls with conventional physical therapy.

Detailed Description Neck pain patients admitted to an outpatient physical therapy program will be randomly assigned to either a control or 3 experimental groups. An initial evaluation and rehabilitation program will be established which includes a home exercise program. Therapy will be 2 days per week for 2 weeks. Thirty of the subjects will use ThermaCare continuous heat neck wraps applied for 6 hours before home exercise, 30 will use ibuprofen (1200 mg /day given in 3 dosages) plus ThermaCare neck wraps before home exercise, 15 will use a sham heat wrap and a Ibuprofen placebo each day and the last 15 will have conventional therapy. Intervention with heat or Ibuprofen will be used on days that they are not being treated in the clinic. All groups will be evaluated initially and after 2 weeks. They will be given home exercise and heat compliance logs and analog visual pain scales to be filled out each night before exercise and, if they used heat, before and after heat will be applied. The physical therapist will also be asked to evaluate their home compliance, pain and the benefit to them from the heat packs. Subjects will complete a neck disability questionnaire at the beginning and end of the study. At the end of the two weeks of treatment, a multivariate ANOVA will be performed to compare changes in home exercise compliance, functional level, pain level, range of motion, and strength. A statistical level of p?.05 is considered predictive of a difference between groups.
Study Type  ICMJE Interventional
Study Phase  ICMJE Phase 4
Study Design  ICMJE Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Care Provider)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Condition  ICMJE
  • Heat
  • Pain
Intervention  ICMJE
  • Device: thermacare heat wraps
    off the shelf thermacare continuous heat wraps made by thermacare to produce low level heat on the neck
    Other Name: continuous low level heat
  • Drug: Ibuprofen
    1200 mg ibuprofen administered 400mg at 4 hour intervals
    Other Name: advil
Study Arms  ICMJE
  • Experimental: continuous low level heat for neck
    30 subjects to use ThermaCare heat wraps on their necks for 6 hours before home exercise programs each day for 10 days. Physical therapy 2 times per week will be used on days where heat wraps are not used.
    Intervention: Device: thermacare heat wraps
  • Experimental: Ibuprofen and continuous low level heat
    30 subjects to use 1200 mg per day Ibuprofen dosed in 3 dosages 4 hours apart on the same days as heat wraps were to be used. ThermaCare heat wraps to be used on their necks for 6 hours before home exercise programs each day for 10 days. Physical therapy 2 times per week will be used on days where heat wraps and ibuprofen are not used.
    Interventions:
    • Device: thermacare heat wraps
    • Drug: Ibuprofen
  • No Intervention: control
    15 subjects with no heat or ibuprofen just physical therapy 2 times per week.
  • Sham Comparator: sham heat and sham ibuprofen
    30 subjects to use 1200 mg per day Ibuprofen sham dosed in 3 dosages 4 hours apart on the same days as sham heat wraps were to be used. ThermaCare heat sham wraps to be used on their necks for 6 hours before home exercise programs each day for 10 days. Physical therapy 2 times per week will be used on days where sham heat wraps andsham ibuprofen are not used.
    Interventions:
    • Device: thermacare heat wraps
    • Drug: Ibuprofen
Publications * Not Provided

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Recruitment Information
Recruitment Status  ICMJE Completed
Actual Enrollment  ICMJE
 (submitted: December 29, 2014)		90
Original Estimated Enrollment  ICMJE Same as current
Actual Study Completion Date  ICMJE March 2015
Actual Primary Completion Date February 2015   (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Eligibility Criteria  ICMJE

Inclusion Criteria:

  • age 18-80 years

Exclusion Criteria:

  • those with neck pain caused by fractures or spinal damage
  • those who have undergone neck surgery within the last year
  • those with radiculopathy or those with diagnosed diabetes were excluded from this study
Sex/Gender  ICMJE
Sexes Eligible for Study:All
Ages  ICMJE 18 Years to 80 Years   (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers  ICMJE No
Contacts  ICMJE Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
Listed Location Countries  ICMJE United States
Removed Location Countries  
 
Administrative Information
NCT Number  ICMJE NCT02327338
Other Study ID Numbers  ICMJE A2014
Has Data Monitoring Committee No
U.S. FDA-regulated Product Not Provided
IPD Sharing Statement  ICMJE Not Provided
Responsible Party Jerrold Petrofsky, Future Sciene Technology
Study Sponsor  ICMJE Future Sciene Technology
Collaborators  ICMJE Pfizer
Investigators  ICMJE
Study Chair:Iman Khowailed, DScTouro University
PRS Account Future Sciene Technology
Verification Date July 2017

ICMJE     Data element required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Health Organization ICTRP