Adding Ujjayi Pranayama to Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment on Pulmonary Functions and Functional Capacity in College Students With Upper Cross Syndrome

Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteopathic Manipulation; Ujjayi Pranayama; Upper Cross Syndrome

Treatments: Other: ujjayi pranayama and osteopathic manipulative treatment; Other: osteopathic manipulative tratment only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07052552

IRB # 2/6/2024-2025

Details and patient eligibility

About

With the advent of the Internet, mobile phones and other electronic devices have become an integral component in everyone's lives, especially students, whether it is to attend classes, make purchases, conduct transactions, or have social interactions . The continuous use of these electronic devices can easily result in abnormal postures . Upper crossed syndrome (UCS) is one of the most frequently cited complications with modern technological life, which is characterized by weakened middle and lower trapezius, scalenes, deep cervical flexors and serratus anterior at the same time as the rhomboids, as well as tightness in the upper trapezius, pectoralis minor and major and levator scapulae muscles . It mainly leads to muscle imbalances, which eventually manifest in both tonic and phasic muscles

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 20 to 29 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Full time college students of age 20-29 years.

  • Subjects who have upper cross syndrome according to REEDCO posture assessment.
  • Subjects who not receiving medical treatment for respiratory diseases .
  • Subjects who have clean family medical history

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects who engaged in additional exercise in two weeks, which was likely to affect the results of the research .

  • Individuals with a history of spine, shoulder fractures, surgery, or other disease.
  • Individuals with severe cardia-cerebrovascular disease.
  • Individuals who will have difficulty to follow-up testing).
  • Neurologic and psychiatric disorders (who can not understand the research project ).
  • Individuals with congenital deformities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

control group will perform osteopathic manipulative tratment only

Treatment:

Other: osteopathic manipulative tratment only

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

experimental group will perform ujjayi pranayama and osteopathic manipulative treatment

Treatment:

Other: ujjayi pranayama and osteopathic manipulative treatment