Sensorimotor Exercises Practice and Yoga in Chronic Neck Pain

Inclusion criteria for the study were: having a diagnosis of 'chronic neck pain', being over the age of 18, persistence of pain for more than 3 months, no neurogenic deficit, and agreeing to participate in the study. Exclusion criteria from the study are as follows: Having speech and comprehension problems, undergoing surgery on the neck region, having a history of trauma and cancer, and a diagnosis of vestibular disorder. After the analysis of the GPower 3.1 program to decide on the sample size, it was seen that a total of 50 participants should be included in the study for a statistical power of 82% (alpha:0.05). Participants diagnosed with chronic neck pain will be randomly divided into two groups as sensorimotor exercise group and yoga group by the evaluator. Sensorimotor exercise group; oculomotor exercise to provide information from the visual system, laser target exercise to provide information from the proprioception system, and postural stability exercise to provide information from the vestibular system. Yoga group will be given yoga exercises. Within the content of oculomotor exercise, gaze stability exercise and head-body coordination exercise will be given to the participants. Laser target exercise will be given with the laser target fixed on the participant's head and 90 cm away from the target. Postural stability exercise will be given in form of tandem exercise and standing on one leg. Yoga exercises will be applied by changing and combining 14 poses every week. The study will take 8 weeks. Participants in both groups will also be treated for 2 days a week. Participants will be evaluated twice, before and after treatment. Participants will be evaluated with Demographic Information Form, SF-36 Quality of Life Scale, Neck Disability Questionnaire, Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale, Numerical Pain Scale, Joint Range of Motion Measurement (G-Pro), Joint Position Error Test. Data analysis of the study will be done using SPSS 22.0 package program. The difference between Independent Groups will be compared with the Student's-t independent Test.