The Effect of a Program Using Some Therapeutic Methods to Rehabilitate Patients Suffering from Neck Pain

Year 2015, Volume 3 - Issue 3, 69 - 77, 30.09.2015

Ayad Omar , Adel Haross

https://doi.org/10.14486/IntJSCS445

Abstract

Neck pain is one of the common physical problems of the adults which needs to be taken seriously in order to prevent further health problems. As the daily life of the modern people leads physical inactivity, and the use of electronic devices causes improper effect on certain parts of the body, specials programs have to be developed as preventive treatment. Therapeutic methods can also be listed through such preventive methods. The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of the proposed program using some natural methods of treatment for the rehabilitation of people with neck pain, to identify the improved range of motion in all directions to the neck area, and also to identify the extent of improvement in muscle strength for the neck and back. Twelve patients in Ain Zara Physiotherapy Center and Tripoli Clinic (in Tripoli city) were chosen as voluntarily whose age ranged from  30 to 50 years, and the subjects were divided into two groups, as experimental and control groups. This study proved that proposed therapeutic methods help the treatment of neck pain. 

Keywords

Neck pain, therapy, rehabilitation

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