Group B
fascia tightness, chronic neck pain, pain
BENDING, GROUP B
Group B received the fascial manipulation technique that involves the application of the appropriate manipulation on the specific point of the fascia with limited movement. The patient was comfortably lying on the plinth with the therapist on the head side. The therapist locate the specific points on the fascia anteriorly, posteriorly, and posterolaterally. Then a specific oscillatory manipulative force was applied directly over that point to resolve that fascia tightness. Along with this, the conventional treatment involves the hot pack (10 min), neck flexion, extension, side bending, and rotation isometrics (each with a 10-sec hold, 5–6 reps) with neck flexors, extensors, side benders and rotators stretching (each with a 10 s hold, 5–6 reps) were given. A total of 45 min sessions three times a week on alternate days for three weeks was given to these patients [All the participants in both groups were assessed for pain using the NPRS scale. NPRS values ranged from 0 to 10, zero shows no pain and 10 shows worst pain and reliability was ICC = 0.85–0.96 [Descriptive and statistical tests were applied using SPSS, IBM version 25. For the quantitative variables, mean and standard deviation were calculated. Results of the Shapiro-Wilk test (p > 0.05) showed that the data were normally distributed, so parametric tests were applied to evaluate the effects of fasciatherapy and fascial manipulation on patients with chronic neck pain. The paired t-test shows differences within the group while the differences across the group were shown by the independent t-test and for significant differences, the p-value was set as p ≤ 0.05.