Background and Significance (Part 1 of "Effects of Online Exercise Intervention on Physical and Mental Conditions in Young Adults with Chronic Neck Pain")

This is Part 1 of "Effects of Online Exercise Intervention on Physical and Mental Conditions in Young Adults with Chronic Neck Pain".

Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders causing significant burden in public health worldwide.The China Mental Health Survey reported that the prevalence of chronic back or neck pain among people with any mental disorders was more than twice that of those without mental disorder.

It has also been proved that exercise can reduce the symptoms of depression, anxiety and pain in patients with neck pain.However, due to the lack of time, money and rehabilitation resources, many people cannot receive high quality conventional rehabilitation. In response to this crisis, telerehabilitation, as a new service mode of delivering rehabilitation, has become popular for physiotherapists to treat various musculoskeletal diseases. Recent review on systematic reviews of telerehabilitation in physiotherapy provides preliminary evidence that “telerehabilitation in physical therapy could be comparable with in-person rehabilitation or better than no rehabilitation for conditions such as osteoarthritis, low-back pain, hip and knee replacement, and multiple sclerosis and also in the context of cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation”. However, the efficacy of telerehabilitation for patients with chronic non-specific neck pain is still unknown.

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