Dear Colleagues,
I have received the following email. If anyone can help would they kindly contact J. Nowak directly
Many thanks,
Olive
Name: Julie Nowak
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Comments: Hi!
I work currently as a french physiotherapist in a pain center to conduct a study on chronic neck pain. We had already made a draft study on this subject but the lack of patient was not possible to draw reliable conclusions. So we begin the study and hoped to have the advice of your organization to conduct a study reliable and relevant.
This study focuses on self-management of patients with chronic neck pain. Patients were divided into two groups, a control group of liberal conventional physiotherapy for 3 months and the group with physiotherapy liberal more self-learning exercises on the neck.
An initial assessment is conducted by a physiotherapist after inclusion in the protocol by the medical center pain. We test the amplitude, strength, kinesthetic , pain, muscle tension, etc..
Then we teach to the patient self-exercises like active mobilization, stretching, muscle strengthening, and friction massage to relieve pain.
After 3 months the groups are reversed, so as not to delease a group and see if it is better to do self-exercise after liberal physical therapy or at the same time.
The study will be made during 1 year.
Two problems are presents with this Protocol:
The conventional physical therapy is vast and varied, many methods exist and it seems difficult to compare different physiotherapists liberals among them, each method is unique. I don't know how to do to have homogen liberal traitment.
The 2nd question is in the choice of stretching, in effect giving stretch identical to each patient can not seem to be the most effective method, but adjust stretch learning to each patient makes it difficult to compare results.
So if you can help us on these points or if you are interested in this study, please contact me at this address.
Thank you!
Julie Nowak
Please get in touch shortly.
Olive Goddard
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Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
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