NCT06407700

Comparison of Brugger's Exercise With and Without Kendall Exercises in Sterno-Symphyseal Syndrome

Comparative Effects of Brugger's Exercise With and Without Kendall Exercises on Pain, Craniovertebral Angle and Range of Motion in Patients With Sterno-Symphyseal Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Sterno-symphyseal syndrome is a natural result of prolonged sitting work, especially with computers .In actual it is the approximation between pubic symphysis and sternum. The aim of study will be to compare the effects of Brugger's exercise with and without Kendall exercises on Pain, Craniovertebral angle and Range of motion in patients with Sterno-Symphyseal Syndrome. Group A will be treated with Kendall exercises and Brugger's Exercise and Group B will receive Brugger's Exercise only. Standard treatment will be provided to both groups. Outcome measures will be conducted at baseline, after 3 weeks and by the end of 6 weeks of treatment. Data will be analyzed using SPSS software version 25.

Detailed description

Sterno-symphyseal syndrome is a natural result of prolonged sitting work, especially with computers. It is basically the approximation between the sternum and pubic symphysis. This syndrome has been given several names including posterior cervical-dorsal syndrome and more commonly Computer back or Student syndrome. This posture is associated with increased muscular tension and faulty respiration habit. The aim of study will be to compare the effects of Brugger's exercise with and without Kendall exercises on Pain, Craniovertebral angle and Range of motion in patients with Sterno-Symphyseal Syndrome. A Randomized Clinical Trial will be conducted at Umar Hospital Lahore through convenience sampling technique on patients which will be allocated using simple random sampling through computer generated method into Group A and Group B. Group A will be treated with Kendall exercises and Brugger's Exercise and Group B will receive Brugger's Exercise only. Standard treatment will be provided to both groups. Outcome measures will be conducted through pain, Craniovertebral angle and neck range of motion at baseline, after 3 weeks and by the end of 6 weeks of treatment. Data will be analyzed using SPSS software version 25. After assessing normality of data by Shapiro-wilk test, it will be decided either parametric or non-parametric test will be used within a group or between two groups.

Conditions

• Upper Crossed Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Brugger's exercise.	Participant was in a high sitting position. An elastic resistance band was be wrapped on each hand of the participant leaving the palm open and instructed to abduct and extend of thumb along with fingers, followed by wrist extension and forearm supination, the participant were instructed to perform scapular retraction with chin tucked in ,shoulder external rotation, elbow extension, shoulder abduction, and extension. Intervention was started from 10 seconds hold to 30 seconds with 2 seconds increment in every session. Rest time was 30 seconds, 4 sets 12 times repetitions.
PROCEDURE	Kendall Exercise.	Kendall exercises with the frequency 5 sets of consisting of 12 repetitions of postures, each taking 30 seconds,3 times a week for total of 6 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-02
• Primary completion: 2024-07-01
• Completion: 2024-08-04
• First posted: 2024-05-09
• Last updated: 2024-12-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan