Chronic Neck Pain Clinical Trial Data on Treatment Mechanisms and Outcomes

131.5 KB of data from a clinical trial investigating why physical therapy helps chronic neck pain. The dataset includes results from mediation analyses testing whether physical and psychological mechanisms explain improvements in pain and function at 4 weeks and 6 months. Author Chad E. Cook published the data on figshare in 2026.

Use Cases

• Replicate mediation analyses based on the described models linking baseline pain to outcomes.
• Study the relationship between psychological factors like fear-avoidance and short-term physical function.
• Analyze clinical trial data where manual therapy and exercise interventions showed no between-group differences.
• Investigate the role of specific mechanisms (mobility, pain modulation, endurance) versus shared mechanisms (self-efficacy, fear, coping) in chronic pain.

Strengths

• Data originates from a registered clinical trial (NCT05940012).
• Includes results from 16 statistical mediation models.
• Published under a CC-BY-4.0 license for open reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 131.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Chad E. Cook.

Collection Method

Data from a mechanistic clinical trial comparing manual therapy and exercise interventions.

Time Range

Outcomes measured at 4 weeks and 6 months post-intervention.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 12:20:21; freshness should be verified.

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