Investigation of the Effectiveness of Tecar Therapy in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

Tecar Therapy will be applied by a specialist physiotherapist with WINTECARE T-PLUS-Switzerland. Participants in the experimental group included in the Tecar therapy application will be applied to the muscle groups in the neck region at a fixed frequency of 0.448 Mhz for 10 minutes.

Tecar Therapy will be applied by a specialist physiotherapist with WINTECARE T-PLUS-Switzerland. The patient will be positioned as in the Tecar group, but the heating feature of the device will not be activated.

This study will include routinely applied conventional physiotherapy, heat modalities, electrotherapy (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and ultrasound therapy), and exercises. In this study, hot pack will be used to induce vasodilation and reduce muscle spasm. Hot pack will be used for 15 minutes to relax muscle spasms and increase soft tissue flexibility. TENS is a simple noninvasive modality and is widely used in both acute and chronic neck pain. In our study, 50 Hz conventional TENS with a pulse duration of \<150 microseconds will be used. TENS will be applied to the painful area of the neck for 20 minutes. Ultrasound therapy used to warm deep tissues is one of the most frequently used physical therapy methods. An ultrasound device (Chattanooga, USA) will be used in the study. Ultrasound gel will be applied circularly with a thickness of 2-3 mm. Ultrasound will be applied with a 4 cm2 probe for 5 minutes with a frequency of 1 MHz and 1.5 Wt/cm2. Within the scope o