Efeitos da terapia de liberação posicional na cervicalgia: análise da dor e incapacidade

Abstract

Introduction: The neck pain is one of the most disabiliting pain charts, becaming cronic state and with rising incidence in the young adult group with active working life. Objective: Avaluate the effects of the positional release therapy in the pain and disability of young adults with unexpected neck pain. Methods: Study quasi-experimental and descriptive, that participate 52 young adult residents in Goiania. The participants were avaluated before an aplication of the positional release therapy, right after and 7 days after, with the visual analogue scale, to quantify the neck pain, and the Neck Disability Index, to identify the disability gerated by the neck pain. Was adopted a meaningfulness level of 5% (p≤0,05). Results: The average of the pain before the thecnic was about 4,30 cm (±1,89), right after of 1,08 cm (±1,17) and of 1,32 cm (±1,60) 7 days after the interventin. Those values show that the therapy was abble to promote satisfying reduction of the pain (p≤0,01) with the maintenance of this result 7 days after the treatment (p≤0,62). Related to the inability, was a statiscally significant improvement on the general aspect (p<0,01) with important improvementin in all of the investigated sections. Conclusion: In reason of the effects of Positional Release Therapy verifyed in the study, it shows itself an excelent alternative to the treatment of neck pain, must beeing Includded on the plane of physiotherapeutic treatment of patients with this disturb.