Backpack Load and Spine Muscles Activity (BLSMA)

University Fernando Pessoa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child

Treatments: Other: loading conditions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02725645

FCS-UFP-2016-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the present study is to analyze the influence of four backpack loading conditions (0, 10, 15 and 20% of body weight) on the electromyographic activity of the neck and lumbar muscles of elementary school children.

Full description

Elementary school children participated in the present study, between the ages of 6 and 10. Bilateral sternocleidomastoid, rectus abdominis and erector spinae muscles activity were recorded using surface electromyography (sEMG), while tested for the effect of four randomized backpack loading conditions.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children with tutor consent

Exclusion criteria

• children with cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy school children

Experimental group

Description:

elementary school children will be presented with different backpack loading conditions

Treatment:

Other: loading conditions