50% Body Weight Reverses Stature, Lumbar Disc Expansion and Vertebral Compliance by Hyper-Buoyancy Floatation.

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Status: Completed

Conditions: Muscle Atrophy; Spine Injury; Intervertebral Disc Compression

Treatments: Device: Hyper-buoyancy Floatation (HBF); Device: Axial Load after 4h of HBF

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05590754

HR-18/19-11548

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study with the aim to see the effect on a space ground analogue , Hyper-Buoyancy Floatation (HBF) on lumbar column and the effect of a supplementary 50% of an axial load.

Full description

the aim of this study was to determine the effect of 15min of 1g reloading following 4h HBF unloading with, and without 30s of seated static 50% BW axial loading upon stature, lumbar Intervertebral Disc height (via ultrasound), vertebral compliance changes, and back pain.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• physical requirements (1.57-1.90m, 50-95kg)

Exclusion criteria

• current back/neck pain, musculoskeletal disorder, cardiovascular disease, spine surgery and being, or suspected to be pregnant

Trial design

16 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group

Description:

8 participants (4 males, 25.5±4.4 years, 63.5±10.6 kg, 163.2±5.6 cm)

Treatment:

Device: Hyper-buoyancy Floatation (HBF)

Device: Axial Load after 4h of HBF

Observational Group

Description:

8 participants (3 males, 27.0±2.0 years, 68.4±11.8 kg, 176.5±10.9 cm

Treatment:

Device: Hyper-buoyancy Floatation (HBF)

Device: Axial Load after 4h of HBF