NCT05619094

Effects of Exercise on Alignment and Muscle Parameters in Forward Head Posture

The Effectiveness of Corrective Exercise Program on Alignment, Muscle Activation and Biomechanical Properties in Medical Students With Forward Head Posture

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cukurova University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It is aimed to investigate the effect of corrective exercise program on alignment, muscle activation and biomechanical properties of muscles in medical students with forward head posture.

Detailed description

Forward head posture (FHP) is a common postural abnormality that can be seen in all age groups. It is characterized by the head position being forward relative to the neck in the sagittal plane. The anterior displacement of the head is mainly assessed through examination of the craniovertebral angle (CVA) and a CVA of ˂50° is described as a FHP. Therapeutic exercises have shown to be effective in FHP and related symptoms in many studies. One of the exercise programs applied is the corrective exercise program. Within the scope of this program, deep cervical flexor muscles and shoulder retractors are strengthened, cervical extensors and pectoral muscles are stretched. This exercise protocol has been reported to provide relief in neck pain, improvement in CVA and shoulder angle. However, the number of studies examining the effect of corrective exercise program for the affected muscle groups in FHP on muscle activation parameters is limited, and there is no study examining the effect on the biomechanical properties of the muscles. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the effect of corrective exercise program on alignment, muscle activation and biomechanical properties of muscles in medical students with forward head posture.

Conditions

• Forward Head Posture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Corrective exercise program	Strengthening exercises for deep cervical flexor muscles and shoulder retractors. Stretching exercises for cervical extensors and pectoral muscles.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-06-30
• Completion: 2023-10-01
• First posted: 2022-11-16
• Last updated: 2023-11-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)