Influence of the Global Postural Reeducation and the Personality in the Posture (RPG-POSTURE)

Influence of the Global Postural Reeducation and the Personality Traits in the Range of Motion, in the Stabilometry and in the Postural Sway.

Determine the influence of a treatment with Global Postural Reeducation techniques and the personality traits in the stabilometric parameters

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Postural; Defect
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: Global Postural Reeducation

Detailed Description

This study is realized with university students. For a first objective of this study, all the participants complete the "big five questionnaire" to determine their personality traits and then the subjects are analyzed with a stabilometric platform and cervical/lumbar range of motion (ROM) to determine their basal parameters. The personality traits and the basal stabilometric parameters like the postural sway, will be crossed to investigate a possible relation. For a second objective, the randomized study of the effectiveness of the Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) in the stabilometric parameters, the subjects are divided in a experimental group or in a control group. Experimental group is treated in a 45 minutes GPR session, with three postures: the first is for stretch the anterior muscular chain with the patient lying supine on a couch with arms at 45 degrees, hips open, and feet in opposition on top of the couch. This posture is maintained 25-30 minutes. In the second GPR posture, to stretch the posterior muscular chain, the subject is positioned with legs elevated, for 12-15 minutes. Third position is with the participant in upright standing posture 2-5 minutes to integrate the postural corrections. During all the time, the physiotherapist uses manual therapy for stretch the muscles under the official rules of GPR techniques. Group control do not receive any technique. After the time of the intervention or no intervention, a second measure of stabilometric parameters and ROM is taken. After this first day, two days later and seven days later, the measures are repeated to determinate the permanence of the effects of GPR techniques.

The improvement will be assessed by calculating indicators of clinical relevance: relative risk (RR), absolute risk reduction (AR). The results will be compared statistically to determine some possible relation. The confidence intervals (CI) will be calculated for the most relevant parameters. The analysis will be made with a statistics program (SPSS 19.0)

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 76
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Alicante
    • Sant Joan, Alicante, Spain, 03550
      • Miguel Hernandez University of Elche

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 38 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• College students spend 4 hours or more per day sitting

Exclusion Criteria:

• College students do not spend 4 hours or more per day sitting.
• Subjects with a traumatic problem, injuries, in the moment of the study, or subject in treatment of this injuries

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Global Postural Reeducation; Participants receiving GPR treatment during 45 minutes to stretch muscular chains	Procedure: Global Postural Reeducation; Experimental group is treated in a 45 minutes GPR session, with three postures: the first was for the anterior muscular chain with the patient lying supine on a couch with arms at 45 degrees, hips open, and feet in opposition on top of the table. This posture is maintained 25-30 minutes. The second GPR posture, to stretch the posterior muscle chain, the participant is positioned with legs elevated, for 12-15 minutes. Third position is with the participant standing and 2-5 minutes to integrate the postural corrections. During all the time, the physiotherapist use manual therapy for stretch the muscles under the official rules of GPR techniques. Group control do not receive any technique.; Other Names: Manual Therapy; Stretching; Muscle chains
No Intervention: Control; Participants not receiving GPR treatment

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Centre of pressure displacement in standing position	Displacement antero-posterior and lateral of COP measured with a platform of pressures	Before intervention, 2 minutes after, 2 days after, 7 days after

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Plantar pressures distribution in standing position	Plantar pressures distribution in each foot measured with a platform of pressures	Before intervention, 2 minutes after, 2 days after, 7 days after
Percentage of load distribution in standing position	Load distribution between feet measured with a platform of pressures	Before intervention, 2 minutes after, 2 days after, 7 days after
Lumbar and cervical range of motion	Cervical and lumbar inclinometer for goniometry	Before intervention, 10 minutes after, 2 days after, 7 days after

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Big Five personality traits questionnaire (spanish version)	Auto-reported questionnaire for individual score in the five broad dimensions of personality: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.	Before intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Carlos Lozano-Quijada, PT, Universidad Miguel Hernández; Study Director: Emilio J Poveda-Pagán, PhD, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche; Study Director: María J Prieto-Castelló, PhD, Universidad Miguel Hernández

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: July 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 1, 2014
• Study Completion (Actual): October 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 16, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 24, 2014
• First Posted (Estimate): June 26, 2014

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): December 17, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 15, 2015
• Last Verified: October 1, 2014

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Range of motion; Stabilometry; Personality traits; Global postural reeducation; Postural Sway
• Other Study ID Numbers: DPC-CLQ-001-12