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A Postural Study Comparing Sitting on the Floor Versus Sitting in a Chair While Playing Video Games.

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Glinn and Giordano Physical Therapy

Status

Completed

Conditions

Scoliosis

Treatments

Other: Time to fatigue

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01163955
Protocol 10-90

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine if sitting in a chair or sitting on the floor lends itself to better posture while playing video games.

Full description

Upon completion of the parental consent form, each test subject will be instructed to flip a two-sided coin to determine the sitting position of the test subject. If the flip reveals a "heads", the child will be instructed to sit in a chair; chairs will be appropriately sized to allow the child to rest his/her feet on the ground. If the flip reveals a "tails", the child will be instructed to sit on a small carpet piece that measures 2-feet by 2-feet. Each test subject will be taken to their gaming station which will sit approximately 8 feet away from a 55-inch flat screen television that will be on a 30-inch table and handed a wireless controller. Two gaming stations will be available with one featuring the game Lego Batman and the other featuring Lego Indiana Jones with both gaming stations testing simultaneously. The test subjects will be told they can play for 5 minutes with a Physical Therapist at each station to monitor and record the test subjects' positioning.

Enrollment

56 patients

Sex

All

Ages

5 to 15 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • English and Spanish Speaking

Exclusion criteria

  • Non-english or non-spanish speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

56 participants in 2 patient groups

Sitting in a chair
Other group
Description:
Sitting in a chair with back support and feet flat on the ground
Treatment:
Other: Time to fatigue
Sitting on the Floor
Other group
Description:
Sitting on the floor without back support, crossed leg style
Treatment:
Other: Time to fatigue

Trial contacts and locations

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