Diaphragm Stretching Increases Spine and Thoracic Mobility

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Diaphragm stretching.; Other: Placebo.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01753726

DF0037UG

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physical therapists have traditionally included various forms of manual therapy among the therapeutic approaches to spinal pathologies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diaphragmatic stretching on spine and thoracic movement in healthy adults.

Full description

Spinal pain is a well recognized condition associated with significant personal and community burdens. Recent studies estimated the prevalence between 6 and 22% in neck pain, from 4-72% in thoracic pain and from 1.0% to 58.1% in low back pain, which increases with age. During the last decades numerous researches have been conducted on stretching effects, evidencing an increased muscle control, flexibility and range of motion. The main purpose of this investigation is to examine the effects of diaphragm stretching in spine and thoracic mobility in healthy subjects in order to apply the results in a specifics pathologies in future studies.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy subjects
• Age: between 18 and 65 years old.

Exclusion criteria

• Pathological subjects

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

43 people are recruited in order to the inclusion criteria for the study. They are healthy people. A diaphragm stretching technique was employed in this experimental group.

Treatment:

Other: Diaphragm stretching.

Placebo group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

37 healthy people were recruited in order to the inclusion criteria.

Treatment:

Other: Placebo.