AI Training Program vs Standard Correction for Forward Head and Rounded Shoulder in Neck Pain

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Forward Head Posture; Upper Cross Syndrome; Rounded Shoulder Posture

Treatments: Other: AI based exercise; Other: standard corrective exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07236385

P.T.REC/012/005976

Details and patient eligibility

About

this study will be to evaluate the effectiveness of AI-recommended exercise interventions versus standard corrective exercises in management of non-specific neck pain with forward head and rounded shoulder posture. with the goal of improving neck pain, functional disability, forward head, and rounded shoulder postures.

Full description

The aim of the current study is to evaluate the efficacy of APECS-AI app suggested exercises and standard corrective exercises in managing non-specific neck pain with forward head and rounded shoulders posture. Forty-six subjects of both genders between (18 and 35 years old) have non-specific neck pain with forward head and rounded shoulder posture will be enrolled in this study. The subjects will be randomized into two equal groups (n = 23 each): An intervention group (Group A), will receive AI-generated personalized exercise regimens from the APECS-AI app, and a control group (Group B), will perform standard corrective exercises

Enrollment: 46 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Subjects with non-specific neck pain who had localized neck pain felt it anywhere along the cervical spine, from the superior nuchal line to the first thoracic spinous process.

Neck pain between 3 and 8cm on a visual analogue scale. Subjects suffering from chronic (> 12 weeks) neck pain. Subjects with forward head posture with craniovertebral angle (CVA) angle less than 50 degrees.

Subjects with rounded shoulder posture as shoulder angle < 52. Subjects must not have received any pharmacological medication related to their musculoskeletal condition as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or muscle relaxant for at least three months prior to enrolment in the study.

Subjects must not have involved in any form of physical therapy or structured postural correction programs within the 6 months prior to study -

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Musculoskeletal diseases, cardiopulmonary diseases, and a history of surgery that could affect the experiment.
2. History of cervical spine injury or surgery.
3. Neck pain secondary to other conditions (e.g. Neoplasm, neurological diseases or vascular diseases).
4. Spondylosis and spondylolisthesis
5. A neurological disease, infection.
6. Inflammatory arthritis in the cervical spine.
7. Poor general health status that would interfere with the exercises -

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

AI based exercise

Experimental group

Description:

receive AI-generated personalized exercise regimens from the APECS-AI app

Treatment:

Other: AI based exercise

standard corrective exercises

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: standard corrective exercises