Use of ThermaCare Heat Wraps and Ibuprofen as an Adjunct to Physical Therapy for Neck Pain
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
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.