Correlation Between BMI and Craniovertebral Angle and Their Impact on Hand Grip Strength and Neck Functional Disability in Egyptian University Student

Ahram Canadian University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: • FHP app (Pyeongtaek, South Korea) mobile application

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06475079

P.T - ORT- 4/2024-540

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: To find the relation between cranio-vertebral angle and hand grip strength in university student mobile users.

Design: cross sectional study. Setting: Ahram Candian University Subjects:100 male and female university students with age ranged from 20 to 30 years old will participate in this study.

Intervention: cross sectional study to detect the relation between cranio-vertebral angle and hand grip strength in university student mobile users.

Main measures:

• FHP app (Pyeongtaek, South Korea) mobile application
• Hand dynamometer (the JAMAR® Hydraulic Hand) (Lupton-Smith et al.,2022)
• Mechanical height and weight scale
• Visual Analogue Scale
• Arabic Neck Disability Index Results: The results will be obtained via one-way analyses of variance (ANOVA).

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• • Their ages will range from 20-30 years old.

  • Their BMI will be between than 20- 30kg/m2.
  • All of them suffer from mild degree of neck pain.
  • The subjects complain from neck pain for 1 month ago

• Exclusion criteria:

Exclusion criteria were a history of any of the following condition:

• inflammatory diseases or any rheumatic disorders,
• a history of vertebral fractures
• surgical spinal fixation.
• •any neurological disorders like MS

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Group (A):

Description:

Body mass index \< 25

Treatment:

Other: • FHP app (Pyeongtaek, South Korea) mobile application

Group (B):

Description:

Body mass index \> 25

Treatment:

Other: • FHP app (Pyeongtaek, South Korea) mobile application