Clinical Trials Logo

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this Randomized clinical trial is to learn about how fixing neck curvature and head posture right away affects heart rate, brainwaves, and muscle coordination in college athletes. The main question it aims to answer: - Whether forward head posture (FHP) may play a crucial role in affecting heart rate variability, brainwaves, and muscle coordination.


Clinical Trial Description

Background: Restoring normal cervical spine alignment has emerged as one of the most important clinical outcomes in healthcare. However, the question of whether cervical biomechanical dysfunction manifesting as forward head posture (FHP) may play a crucial role in affecting heart rate variability, as an indicator of the autonomic nervous system, electroencephalography (EEG) pattern, as indictor for brain waves, and corticomuscular coherence, as an indicator of the functional connection between the cortex and muscles during continuous muscle contractions among collegiate athletes has not been answered yet. Objective: To investigate the immediate and long-term effects of cervical lordosis restoration and forward head correction using the Dennerollâ„¢ on heart rate variability, EEG pattern, and corticomuscular coherence among collegiate athletes. Methods: Eighty asymptomatic subjects with a definite hypolordotic cervical spine and FHP will be randomly assigned to an experimental group or a control group. The experimental group will receive the Dennerollâ„¢ cervical traction while the control group will be considered as a wait list to start the intervention after completion of the experimental group. Interventions will be applied 3 times per week for a period of 10 weeks. Changes in heart rate variability, EEG pattern and corticomuscular coherence will be assessed at three-time intervals: at baseline, after 10 weeks of intervention, and at 6-months follow up with no further interventions. ;


Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT06323746
Study type Interventional
Source University of Sharjah
Contact Shima Zadeh
Phone +971503077039
Email Szadeh@sharjah.ac.ae
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date May 2024
Completion date December 2026