França, Ingrid Martins deCunha, Railton Marcio da2022-12-202022-12-202022-12-06CUNHA, Railton Marcio da. Efeitos da terapia manual em pacientes com cervicalgia crônica não-específica: uma revisão narrativa. Orientadora: Ingrid França. 2022. 23f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Fisioterapia) - Departamento de Fisioterapia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2022.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/50334Introduction: Chronic non-specific neck pain (CCNE) is characterized by pain in the neck region with no defined etiology and lasting more than 12 weeks from the onset of symptoms. It is a problem that affects 30% to 50% of the general population and is therefore an important reason for spending on health. Manual therapy together with exercise therapy are widely used approaches in the treatment of CCNE, requiring studies on their effects and methods of use. Objective: to verify the evidence on manual therapy combined or not with exercise therapy in patients with CCNE. Methods: This work is characterized as a narrative review of randomized clinical trials published until September 2022. The searches were carried out in the PEDRO, PUBMED and LILACS databases. Articles that used some manual therapy technique, associated or not with physical exercise, were included. Results: After excluding duplicates, analyzing titles and abstracts, 7 articles published between 2014 and 2022 were included in this review, totaling 485 participants (364 women and 121 men). Maitland was the most used technique, the most common outcomes were pain intensity and cervical disability, measured mainly by visual scale and cervical disability index, respectively. In general, manual therapy associated with an exercise program proved to be more effective in reducing neck pain and disability if the use of these two resources was discovered separately. The same occurred for the variables: disease severity and global improvement, cervical range of motion, perceived global recovery and quality of life. Conclusion: Manual therapy and exercise therapy were found to be effective in the treatment of CCNE when applied clinically, but the results were better when used together.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/CervicalgiaTerapia manualExercíciosDorNeck painManual therapyExercisesPainbachelorThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FISIOTERAPIA E TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL