Abstract
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of cervical manipulative therapy on sleep in patients with mechanical neck pain.
Methodology: The study comprised of one group of thirty participants (n=30), 21 males and 9 females, who were between the ages of 19-36, who had sleep disturbance and mechanical neck. All participants received cervical manipulative therapy (CMT), twice a week for three weeks. Subjective data was collected in the form of a Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) which measured sleep quality and a Numerical Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) which measured the pain intensity. Objective data was collected using a cervical range of motion (CROM) device, twice a week for three weeks.
Procedure: Shapiro-Wilk test was used for normal distribution of data. One-way repeated measures ANOVA tests were conducted in order to investigate if any significant difference exist among the visits (visit 1, visit 4 and visit 7) for all variables measured in this study. Where statistical significant differences exists, Pairwise Comparisons were performed to check where the difference lies.
Results: One-way repeated measures ANOVA revealed the p-value (p < 0.05) to be statistically significant for the PSQI, NPRS and CROM data obtained from this study. One-way repeated measures ANOVA also revealed PSQI, NPRS and CROM to have favourable results from visit 1 to visit 7.
Conclusion: The overall results were favourable as the participants had neck pain relief, increased cervical range of motion and improvement in their sleep quality following CMT. Due to the small sample size, it is however not clear if CMT had a direct effect on sleep quality or if the improvement in the participants sleep quality was due to a reduction in the participant’s neck pain intensity.
M.Tech. (Chiropractic)