Effectiveness of an Eye-Cervical Re-education Program in Chronic Neck Pain

"Subjects received a total of ten sessions on alternate days.~This includes a total of 10 exercises that has proprioceptive reprogramming in the cervical area with the following phases:~1. To stimulate ocular mobility without including the cervical movement. The patient was placed in the supine position and the physiotherapist seated, at the height of the head.~2. To exercise cervical mobility with restricted eye movement. The patient is placed on a rotating stool. The ocular mobility is excluded with opaque glasses that allowed exclusively the foveal vision~3. Finally we stimulate eye and neck movement coordination. The patient continued to sit on the stool, this time without the glasses."

Thermotherapy (70 w continuous microwave for 10 minutes), therapeutic massage (surface rubbing for 5 minutes, 10 minutes of compression and kneading massage and 2 minutes of final surface friction), application of analgesic currents (TENS, by self-adhesive silicone electrodes 4x4 cm, symmetrical biphasic rectangular current, 200 µs width pulse, a frequency of 1 Hz for 10 minutes. The patient should notice a slight vibration, without it being painful).