Trial reportJournal of rehabilitation medicine2021
Effects of virtual reality-based neck-specific sensorimotor training in patients with chronic neck pain: A randomized controlled pilot trial.
Trial report in Journal of rehabilitation medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Pain Management in Musculoskeletal Disorders Across Anatomical Regions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Musculoskeletal care · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness and adverse effects of immersive technologies used for rehabilitation of patients with non-specific neck pain: a systematic review.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Immersive and Nonimmersive Virtual Reality-Assisted Active Training in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy of virtual reality for pain relief in medical procedures: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Virtual Reality Intervention for Patients With Neck Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Use and efficacy of virtual, augmented, or mixed reality technology for chronic pain: a systematic review.Pain management · 2022Pooled it
- Sensory-motor training with virtual reality as a complementary intervention to manual therapy for persistent non-specific neck pain: a randomized controlled trial.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2024Trial
- Quantifying Impairments in the Subacute Phase of Whiplash Associated Disorders-A Cross-Sectional Study.Life (Basel, 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
- Virtual Reality in Acute and Chronic Pain Medicine: An Updated Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- Virtual reality-based therapy for chronic low back and neck pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis.EFORT open reviews · 2024Article
- The effect of a neck-specific exercise program on cervical kinesthesia for patients with chronic whiplash-associated disorders: a case-control study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
- Effects of Virtual Reality Therapy Combined With Conventional Rehabilitation on Pain, Kinematic Function, and Disability in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR serious games · 2024Article
- Limited use of virtual reality in primary care physiotherapy for patients with chronic pain.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of Virtual Reality on Postoperative Pain, Disability and Range of Movement after Knee Replacement: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Virtual Reality Therapy for the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR serious games · 2024Review
- Concurrent Validity of Cervical Movement Tests Using VR Technology-Taking the Lab to the Clinic.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Clinical Applications of Virtual Reality in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Virtual Reality-Based Exercise Therapy for Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Improving Adherence to a Home Rehabilitation Plan for Chronic Neck Pain through Immersive Virtual Reality: A Case Report.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effects of neck-specific sensorimotor training using a virtual reality device compared with 2 standard rehabilitation programmes: with, and without general sensorimotor training, in patients with non-traumatic chronic neck pain.
designPilot randomized control study. PATIENTS AND
methodsA total of 51 participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: 1: control group; 2: sensorimotor group; 3: virtual reality group. All 3 groups received the clinic's standard rehabilitation programme. Group 2 also received "general sensori-motor training" in the form of group therapy, for a total of 120 min. Group 3 received additional virtual reality-based "neck-specific sensorimotor training" for a total of 120 min. Participants' neck pain, head-aches, active cervical range of motion, and Neck Disability Index were determined before and after 3 weeks of intervention.
resultsCompared with the control group, the virtual reality group showed significant (p < 0.05) advantages in relief of headaches, and active cervical range of motion in flexion and extension. Com-pared with the sensorimotor group, the virtual reality group showed significant improvements in cervical extension.
conclusionVirtual reality-based sensorimotor training may increase the effects of a standard rehabilitation programme for patients with non-traumatic chronic neck pain, especially active cervical range of motion in extension.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.