Comparison of Pilates and Conventional Treatment in Addition to Pilates in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

Pilates exercises; warm-up and cool-down exercises will be performed for 5 repetitions, while other exercises will be performed by the same physiotherapist as 10 repetitions depending on the patient's pain and fatigue. The exercises will be advanced at the end of the 3rd week.

In addition to pilates exercises, a conventional treatment program will be applied. As part of the conventional treatment program, 20 minutes of Hotpack to the cervical area, 20 minutes of conventional Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) to the painful area (80 Hertz (Hz), 100 microseconds (μs), until tingling is felt, asymmetrical biphasic rectangular waveform), 8 minutes to the cervical area Ultrasound (US) (4 minutes + 4 minutes, 1.5 watts/cm2, 1 MHz, continuous) will be applied.