Influence of the Global Postural Reeducation and the Personality in the Posture

Postural; Defect Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Influence of the Global Postural Reeducation and the Personality Traits in the Range of Motion, in the Stabilometry and in the Postural Sway.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02175667
• Other study ID #: DPC-CLQ-001-12
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 16, 2014
• Last updated: December 15, 2015
• Start date: July 2014
• Est. completion date: October 2014

Study information

• Verified date: October 2014
• Source: Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Spain: Comité Ético de Investigación Clínica
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Determine the influence of a treatment with Global Postural Reeducation techniques and the personality traits in the stabilometric parameters

Description:

This study is realized with university students. For a first objective of this study, all the participants complete the "big five questionnaire" to determine their personality traits and then the subjects are analyzed with a stabilometric platform and cervical/lumbar range of motion (ROM) to determine their basal parameters. The personality traits and the basal stabilometric parameters like the postural sway, will be crossed to investigate a possible relation. For a second objective, the randomized study of the effectiveness of the Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) in the stabilometric parameters, the subjects are divided in a experimental group or in a control group. Experimental group is treated in a 45 minutes GPR session, with three postures: the first is for stretch the anterior muscular chain with the patient lying supine on a couch with arms at 45 degrees, hips open, and feet in opposition on top of the couch. This posture is maintained 25-30 minutes. In the second GPR posture, to stretch the posterior muscular chain, the subject is positioned with legs elevated, for 12-15 minutes. Third position is with the participant in upright standing posture 2-5 minutes to integrate the postural corrections. During all the time, the physiotherapist uses manual therapy for stretch the muscles under the official rules of GPR techniques. Group control do not receive any technique. After the time of the intervention or no intervention, a second measure of stabilometric parameters and ROM is taken. After this first day, two days later and seven days later, the measures are repeated to determinate the permanence of the effects of GPR techniques.

The improvement will be assessed by calculating indicators of clinical relevance: relative risk (RR), absolute risk reduction (AR). The results will be compared statistically to determine some possible relation. The confidence intervals (CI) will be calculated for the most relevant parameters. The analysis will be made with a statistics program (SPSS 19.0)

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 76
• Est. completion date: October 2014
• Est. primary completion date: October 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• College students spend 4 hours or more per day sitting

Exclusion Criteria:

• College students do not spend 4 hours or more per day sitting.

• Subjects with a traumatic problem, injuries, in the moment of the study, or subject in treatment of this injuries

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Postural; Defect

Intervention

Procedure:
• Global Postural Reeducation
Experimental group is treated in a 45 minutes GPR session, with three postures: the first was for the anterior muscular chain with the patient lying supine on a couch with arms at 45 degrees, hips open, and feet in opposition on top of the table. This posture is maintained 25-30 minutes. The second GPR posture, to stretch the posterior muscle chain, the participant is positioned with legs elevated, for 12-15 minutes. Third position is with the participant standing and 2-5 minutes to integrate the postural corrections. During all the time, the physiotherapist use manual therapy for stretch the muscles under the official rules of GPR techniques. Group control do not receive any technique.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Miguel Hernández University of Elche	Sant Joan	Alicante

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Big Five personality traits questionnaire (spanish version)	Auto-reported questionnaire for individual score in the five broad dimensions of personality: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.	Before intervention	No
Primary	Centre of pressure displacement in standing position	Displacement antero-posterior and lateral of COP measured with a platform of pressures	Before intervention, 2 minutes after, 2 days after, 7 days after	No
Secondary	Plantar pressures distribution in standing position	Plantar pressures distribution in each foot measured with a platform of pressures	Before intervention, 2 minutes after, 2 days after, 7 days after	No
Secondary	Percentage of load distribution in standing position	Load distribution between feet measured with a platform of pressures	Before intervention, 2 minutes after, 2 days after, 7 days after	No
Secondary	Lumbar and cervical range of motion	Cervical and lumbar inclinometer for goniometry	Before intervention, 10 minutes after, 2 days after, 7 days after	No