Background: Chronic neck pain is a condition increasing in general and occupational groups. environmental and personal factors influence onset and progress neck pain. Patients with chronic neck pain often report disability and decrease in their functional activities.
Objective: To compare VO2max between normal and chronic neck pain individuals.
Materials and Methods: study design- experimental study on 30chronic neck pain and 30 normal individuals between age group 20-40 years. Materials:-bench for step test height 41.3cms, metronome, stopwatch.
Results: There was significant decrease in vo2 max values between chronic neck pain and normal individuals using unpaired t-test (p value<0.0001).
Conclusion: the study concluded that there is decrease in maximal oxygen carrying capacity of chronic neck pain individuals compared to normal.
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