Effects of Acupressure on Pain, Flexibility, and Substance P in Middle-Age Women with Chronic Neck Pain

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial paper looks at Substance P in the context of chronic pain: fibromyalgia & crps.

Accordingly, the authors aimed to evaluate effects of the 4-week acupressure treatment on pain, neck function, and substance P in women with chronic neck pain.

Why It Was Studied

However, the effect of acupressure on chronic neck pain has not been investigated.

Methods: The acupressure treatment was performed two times a week for 4 weeks in an acupressure group (n = 24), meanwhile a control group (n = 26) was untreated.

Who Took Part

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were adults and middle-aged adults, women only.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

The participants were allocated by chance, so the Substance P group and the comparison group should start out alike.

Before and after intervention, pain intensity and physical disability were measured by visual analogue scale (VAS) and neck disability index (NDI), respectively.

In addition, cervical range of motion (CROM) and serum substance P were evaluated.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Acupressure, Chronic Pain, Neck Pain, Pain Measurement, Range of Motion, Articular and Substance P.

Author keywords: neck disability index and neck flexibility.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Substance P in people with chronic pain: fibromyalgia & crps.

The publication is from 2021 (Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Substance P compound page, Chronic pain: fibromyalgia & CRPS research.