NCT04743427

EFFECTS OF BODY-BLADE EXERCISES ON NECK POSTURE, FUNCTION, AND MUSCLE STRENGTH IN FORWARD HEAD POSTURE

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will be conducted to determine the effect of adding Body-blade exercises to traditional treatment on posture, scapular muscles strength, neck pain, and function in individuals with forward head posture

Detailed description

Many studies have proposed that the Body-blade may be a more effective tool for activating the muscles employed during the training and rehabilitation of the shoulder and trunk than traditional interventions such as cuff weights and Therabands. There is few literature which studied the effect of Body-blade exercises on neck problems. So there is insufficient evidence for their effectiveness on improving forward head posture.

Conditions

• Forward Head Posture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	hot pack and exercises	20-minute hot pack,and three active exercises: (a) chin tucks in supine lying with the head in contact with the floor, (b) active Standing Shoulder pull back , and (c) scapular plane shoulder elevation. (3 sets of 10 repetitions for all the 3 exercises)
DEVICE	body blade(BB)	The Body-blade (Classic, Mad Dogg Athletics, USA), an elastic pole exercise tool with 122 cm in length, 0.68 kg, 4.3 cm in width,based on oscillatory/vibration motions that have been used in training or rehabilitation.The body blade works by rapidly changing directions at a low-frequency rhythm of approximately 4.5 Hz (cycles per second )

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-30
• Primary completion: 2021-04-01
• Completion: 2021-08-01
• First posted: 2021-02-08
• Last updated: 2021-02-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt