Abstract:
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore the effectiveness of educational
booklet with conventional physiotherapy compare to only conventional physiotherapy
for chronic neck pain. Objectives: To compare pain intensity at rest, activity, sitting,
standing, walking, sleeping, neck turning and flexion and ROM in flexion, extension
and rotation before and after the educational booklet with conventional physiotherapy
and conventional Physiotherapy alone in Patients with chronic neck pain.
Methodology: Sixteen patients with chronic neck pain were randomly selected from
outdoor musculo-skeletal unit, CRP and then 8 patients with chronic neck pain were
randomly assigned to educational booklet with conventional physiotherapy group and
8 patients to the only conventional physiotherapy group. The study was conducted at
musculoskeletal department of CRP, savar. Numeric Pain Rating Scale was used to
measure the pain intensity in different functional position and Goniometer to measure
the ROM. Unrelated “t” test was used to compare the results of ROM and Pain was
analyzed by using Mann Whitney ‘U’ test. Results: In Experimental group, Mean
difference of reduction of pain in sitting was 6 which were 5.75 in control group. Also
there was improvement of pain reduction in mean difference during sleeping which
was 0.12 more than control group. But the result of U test showed that there was no
improvement in case of resting pain (p>0.10), during activity pain (p>0.10), during
sitting pain (p>0.10), during standing pain (p>0.10), during walking pain (p>0.10),
during sleeping pain (p>0.10), during neck turning pain (p>0.10) and during neck
flexion pain (p>0.10). The study also found significant Improvement of ROM In case
of neck flexion (p<0.01). Conclusion: This experimental study shows that there was
no significant difference between educational booklet with conventional
physiotherapy and only conventional physiotherapy for patients with chronic neck
pain.
Key words: Neck pain, Educational Booklet, Chronic pain
