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Brief title
Health condition
Musculoskeletal neck pain and/ or headache
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Reproducibility:
The overall inter-examiner agreement, specific positive and negative inter-examiner agreement, and inter-examiner reliability (Cohen’s Kappa’s) will be calculated.
Diagnostic accuracy:
Sensitivity, specificity, and the Area Under the Curve (AUC) will be calculated
Secondary outcome
Not applicable
Background summary
Background: Clinicians are recommended or required to use the screening framework developed by the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) to reduce the risk for vascular complications following cervical manual therapy and exercise. However, the reproducibility and diagnostic accuracy of this screening framework is still unknown.
Aim: This study aimed to determine the inter-examiner agreement and inter-examiner reliability and diagnostic accuracy of the IFOMPT framework among manual therapists in primary care.
Methods: Patients who consulted a manual- physiotherapist for neck pain or headache will be included in the study. Each patient will be tested independently by two manual-physiotherapists for the inter-examiner agreement and inter-examiner reliability part of the study. To determine the diagnostic accuracy, the results of IFOMPT- framework will be compared to a reference standard consisting of an expert panel of two vascular neurologists with access to the results of Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA).
Study objective
We hypothesize that evaluation of the IFOMPT framework gives insight into the reproducibility and diagnostic accuracy of this screening tool for risk estimation of vascular complications among manual-physiotherapists
Study design
Cross-sectional: Time between test and re-test or test and reference test is maximum one week
Intervention
Not applicable
Gwendolyne G.M. Scholten-Peeters
020-5988601
g.g.m.scholten-peeters@vu.nl
Gwendolyne G.M. Scholten-Peeters
020-5988601
g.g.m.scholten-peeters@vu.nl
Inclusion criteria
• At least 18 years old
• Consulted a manual physiotherapist for neck pain or headache
• Sufficient knowledge of the Dutch language to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
Reproducibility: None
Diagnostic accuracy: contraindications for MRA imaging (i.e. claustrophobia, internal pacemaker, metal objects in/or around the neck or face or those who could not lie for 20 minutes)
Design
Recruitment
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| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL8459 |
| Other | Medical Ethics Review Committee of the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (Location VUmc) : METC- 2017.086 |