ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2019
Best Evidence Rehabilitation for Chronic Pain Part 4: Neck Pain.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06086834 (Comparative Effects of McKenzie Retraction and Bruegger's Exercises on Forward Head Posture Among Young Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Comparative Effects of McKenzie Retraction and Bruegger's Exercises on Forward Head Posture Among Young Adults
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 111 citations in OpenAlex.
- Extended Reality Interventions for Osteoarthritis of the Knee and Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Patient-related barriers and enablers to the implementation of high-value physiotherapy for chronic pain: a systematic review.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a Telerehabilitation-Based Exercise Program in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain-A Randomized Clinical Trial.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Trial
- Effects of virtual reality-based neck-specific sensorimotor training in patients with chronic neck pain: A randomized controlled pilot trial.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2021Trial
- Exercise Participation and Clinical Characteristics of Desk-Based Workers with Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain Exposed to Increased Ergonomic Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Autonomic Dysfunction, Psychosocial Factors, and Pain Sensitivity in Persistent Spinal Pain: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Development and Validation of a Novel Neck Care Module in Patients With Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain.Cureus · 2026Article
- Machine learning identifies distinct movement control impairment clusters in patients with chronic neck pain.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Neuro-immune contributors to persistent musculoskeletal pain: from mechanisms to clinical assessment and management.Musculoskeletal science & practice · 2026Review
- Prevalence and associated factors of chronic pain among nurses: a national cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
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- Development and Implementation of MyPainHub, a Web-Based Resource for People With Musculoskeletal Conditions and Their Health Care Professionals: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Physical exercise therapy for chronic non-specific neck pain: protocol for a meta-analysis of individual participant data.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- The Mobile Applications for Low Back and Neck Pain Therapy: App Review.The archives of bone and joint surgery · 2025Review
- Effects of Tai Chi combined with intermediate frequency therapy on patients with chronic nonspecific neck pain: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Virtual Reality-Applied Home-Visit Rehabilitation for Patients With Chronic Pain: Protocol for Single-Arm Pre-Post Comparison Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- "How can we help you?": results of a scoping review on the perceived needs of people living with chronic pain regarding physiotherapy.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Individualized Cognitive Functional Therapy Compared with Conservative Treatment for Patients with Chronic Neck Pain-Study Protocol for a Single Blind Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinics and practice · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Neck pain, whether from a traumatic event such as a motor vehicle crash or of a non-traumatic nature, is a leading cause of worldwide disability. This narrative review evaluated the evidence from systematic reviews, recent randomised controlled trials, clinical practice guidelines, and other relevant studies for the effects of rehabilitation approaches for chronic neck pain. Rehabilitation was defined as the aim to restore a person to health or normal life through training and therapy and as such, passive interventions applied in isolation were not considered. The results of this review found that the strongest treatment effects to date are those associated with exercise. Strengthening exercises of the neck and upper quadrant have a moderate effect on neck pain in the short-term. The evidence was of moderate quality at best, indicating that future research will likely change these conclusions. Lower quality evidence and smaller effects were found for other exercise approaches. Other treatments, including education/advice and psychological treatment, showed only very small to small effects, based on low to moderate quality evidence. The review also provided suggestions for promising future directions for clinical practice and research.
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