Lead Sponsor

Hochschule Osnabruck

Age

18 - 50 years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•between 18 and 50 years of age. This ensures a homogeneous population that in-cludes both young adults and middle-aged individuals.
•have suffered from neck pain continuously for at least 12 weeks, as described by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
•have current neck pain greater than 40 on the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) (on a scale of 0 to 100).
•have an NDI score of over 10 points.

•Cancer
•Patients with existing or previous fractures in the cervical spine
•Patients who have undergone surgery on the cervical spine
•Patients who, in addition to neck pain, also have or have had dizziness or balance disorders
•People with osteoporosis
•Fibromyalgia
•People with diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis
•People with red flags identified during a thorough physical examination
•Patients with neurological deficits identified during a thorough physical examination
•Participants who have undergone physiotherapy within the last 3 months.