the Degree of Forward Head Posture and Hamstring Muscles Tightness

Forward Head Posture Clinical Trial

Official title:

Correlation Between the Degree of Forward Head Posture and Hamstring Muscles Tightness in Non Specific Neck Pain

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05785091
• Other study ID #: 004177
• Status: Completed
• Start date: December 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

is the degree of forward head posture correlated with the degree of hamstring muscles tightness

Description:

I will measure the degree of forward head posture by photogrammetry method and classify the degree according to its severity measuring the hamstring muscles tightness and classify it too according to its severity and calf muscle tightness lumber flexibility and correlate the to the degree of forward the forward head posture and the degree

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 122
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: May 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adult participants 18-30 of age

2. Craniovertebral angle < 490

3. With or without neck pain

• subjects with mechanical neck pain (in individual with chronic non-specific neck pain)

• Subjects are not engaged in any sports or athletic routine Neck disability index >5 points

Exclusion Criteria:

.Prevalence of serious pathology (rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, malignancy, infection, inflammatory disorders).

Vascular syndrome such as vertebrobasilar insufficiency Cervical spine history of trauma, fracture, congenital anomalies, or surgical intervention .

Progressive neurological deficits .

.History of lumbar and cervical herniated intervertebral disc with spinal stenosis History of neurological (Guillain-Barre, peripheral neuritis) or orthopedic disorders (osteoporosis, osteoarthritis) Moderate or severe scoliosis History of lower extremity fracture and surgery with malunion Leg length discrepancy BMI <18 or BMI >29.9

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Forward Head Posture

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	CairoU	Giza

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Holy Shaker Iskander Naroz

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	correlation between the degree of forward head posture and hamstring muscles tightness in non specific neck pain	hamstring muscles tightness is correlated with forward head posture	6 month
Secondary	correlation between the degree of forward head posture and hamstring muscles tightness in non specific neck pain	calf muscle tightness is correlated with forward head posture	6 month