A quasi experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of deep neck flexor muscle strengthening exercise versus neck stretching exercise on neck pain among adolescents

A quasi experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of deep neck flexor muscle strengthening exercise versus neck stretching exercise on neck pain among adolescents. The study adopted a quasi-experimental research design, preintervention and post-intervention assessments were carried out using the revised Oswestry neck pain questionnaire. The participants for study group I and study group II were selected using a simple random technique, with 30 participants in each group. An unpaired "t" test was performed, and the obtained value was 3.52, which was significant at p≤ 0.01. The mean value for study group I was 24.60, while for the Study group II, it was 30.90. These results indicated that deep neck flexor muscle strengthening exercises were more effective in relieving neck pain.