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- Title
Effect of oculomotor exercises in patients with non-specific chronic neck pain and associated visual complaints.
- Authors
Aggarwal, Amita; Thakur, Jidnyasa; Palekar, Tushar J
- Abstract
Background: Neck pain is a common musculoskeletal disorder, the most common type being non-specific chronic neck pain. It usually involves postural or mechanical causes. In Individuals with neck pain, a notable prevalence of visual complaints has been predominantly reported. It can be linked to the mismatch in the cervical afferent output. Objective: This study aimed to assess the effect of oculomotor exercises on neck pain, neck disability, gaze stability and visual complaints among individuals with non-specific chronic neck pain and associated visual complaints. Methods: A total of 32 individuals with non-specific chronic neck pain and associated visual complaints were equally randomised into two groups. To receive either: stretching to the sternocleidomastoid and anterior scalene along with neck Isometric exercises (Group A, conventional) or the conventional protocol along with oculomotor exercises (Group B, experimental). The protocol was given for three alternate days a week for three weeks, a total of nine sessions. The outcome measures were the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain, Neck Disability Index (NDI) for disability, Dynamic Visual Acuity (DVA) test for gaze stability and Visual Complaints Index (VCI) for visual complaints. Results: Significant results were seen for the DVA (p = 0. 0 0 2) and VCI (p = 0. 0 2 4), suggesting improvements in gaze stability and visual complaints using oculomotor exercises. Conclusion: From this study, we highlighted that oculomotor exercises along with conventional treatment led to improvement in visual complaints and gaze stability in patients with non-specific chronic neck pain and associated visual complaints.
- Subjects
CHRONIC pain treatment; NECK pain treatment; CONFIDENCE intervals; VISUAL analog scale; TREATMENT effectiveness; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; T-test (Statistics); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; VISION disorders; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; EXERCISE therapy
- Publication
Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal (World Scientific), 2024, Vol 44, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1013-7025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S101370252450001X