NCT04434235

Effects of Additional Axial Load on Cervical Motor Control

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Balgrist University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

he objective of this study is to examine the influence of additional axial load abd body position on cervical motor control in young healthy adults.

Detailed description

Motor control of the cervical spine is impotent for responsible for maintaining balance during daily living activities and to withstand external loads. Stabilization-aspects of the cervical spine is very complex, passive (ligaments, joint capsule and the skin and active (muscles), and neurological subsystems are involved. Mostly proprioceptive testing and exercises like head and neck position sense testing and re-training have been an integral part of rehabilitation. Another method to evaluate spinal motor control is the assessment of spinal stiffness. The main objective of this study is to explore the effects of additional axial loading on motion control in healthy individuals. Does the motor control of the cervical spine in healthy subjects change with additional axial load or body position? A better understanding of spinal stiffness and neck position sense leads to novel insights into spinal cervical stabilization mechanisms.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	axial load	With a helmet with Velcro fastener we will add additional weight to produce axial load on the cervical spine

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-07-01
• Completion: 2020-08-01
• First posted: 2020-06-16
• Last updated: 2021-01-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland