- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05305807
Effect of Postural Correction Exercises on Shoulder Muscles Tenderness and Performance in Subjects Addicting Smartphones
Study Overview
Detailed Description
Prolonged VDTs operation is a leading cause of musculoskeletal disorders and cumulative trauma disorders such as stiff shoulders, neck soreness, carpal tunnel syndrome, and low back pain among office employees. The problems are intensified by wrong work postures, such as flexed neck, wrists, or excessively flexed forearms.Smartphone is a mobile hand-held VDT device with advanced computing capability, such as internet communication, information retrieval, video display and other capabilities. Being portable, smartphones have had a large impact on modern everyday life on terms of inducing continuous mechanical stress on shoulder and neck tendons and muscles caused by it's prolonged use.
Attaining ideal posture puts least stress on spinal structures. A good posture of head and shoulder is attaining by keeping ears aligned with the shoulders and shoulder joints retracted. Person attaining ideal posture put least stress on spinal structures. The commonest posture adapted by smartphone users is bending their neck and staring at the mobile screen, which subsequently causes postural alteration and leads to neck pain. It is found that there is extremely significant correlation between prolonged use of smartphone and forward head posture.
Posture correction exercises correct postural alterations like forward head posture and rounded shoulder posture. It is found that deep neck flexors, isometric extension, prone chin tucks and chest stretches are effective in correcting forward head posture by improving craniovertebral angle. Scapular stabilization exercises are found to be effective in increasing shoulder range of abduction and external rotation and in decreasing forward head and shoulder postures.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Giza, Egypt, 18650
- Cairo University
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Forty-two subjects of both sexes will be recruited in the study.
- The age range of the recruited subjects will be ranging from 25 to 34 years old.
- For objective assessment of smartphone addiction, smartphone addiction scale will be made
- Recruited subjects will be selected based on having postural deviation in the form of rounded shoulders (CVA is less than 45°) (Weon et al.,2010) and forward head posture( shoulder angle more than 35°
Exclusion Criteria:
1 - Subjects with history of previous injury of the neck, shoulder. 2-Subjects with history of surgical intervention at the neck or upper extremity.
3-Subjects with history of inflammatory joint disease affecting shoulder and facet joints.
4-Subjects with musculoskeletal disorders related to neck or upper limb such as rotator cuff tendinitis and impingement syndrome.
5-Subjects with neurological disorders that affect upper limb muscular performance such as cervical spondylosis, spondylolythesis, disc prolapse or thoracic outlet syndrome.
6-Athletes who practice sports that require use of shoulder muscular group such as volleyball, basketball, boxing.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Study group
Postural exercises will be done to this group
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Postural correction exercises are effective in improving forward head posture and it effectively decrease neck pain and increase ROM Exercise training and ergonomic guidelines concerning the use of touchscreen smartphones will reduce the risk of developing upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders
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No Intervention: Control group
Postural exercises will not be done to this group
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Shoulder muscles peak torque
Time Frame: 4 weeks
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Newton.meter
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4 weeks
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Shoulder muscles work
Time Frame: 4 weeks
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Joules
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4 weeks
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Shoulder muscles work fatigue
Time Frame: 4 weeks
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Joules
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4 weeks
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Shoulder muscles pain threshold
Time Frame: 4 weeks
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Newton
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4 weeks
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Study Chair: Ragia MO Kamel, Ph.D, Professor of Physical Therapy-Cairo University
- Study Director: Amr SA Shalaby, Ph.D, Professor of Physical Therapy-Cairo University
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- P.T.REC/012/003350
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- Study Protocol
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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