Effects of Exercise on Alignment and Muscle Parameters in Forward Head Posture

Çukurova University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Forward Head Posture

Treatments

Other: Corrective exercise program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05619094

Cukurova125

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is aimed to investigate the effect of corrective exercise program on alignment, muscle activation and biomechanical properties of muscles in medical students with forward head posture.

Full description

Forward head posture (FHP) is a common postural abnormality that can be seen in all age groups. It is characterized by the head position being forward relative to the neck in the sagittal plane. The anterior displacement of the head is mainly assessed through examination of the craniovertebral angle (CVA) and a CVA of ˂50° is described as a FHP. Therapeutic exercises have shown to be effective in FHP and related symptoms in many studies. One of the exercise programs applied is the corrective exercise program. Within the scope of this program, deep cervical flexor muscles and shoulder retractors are strengthened, cervical extensors and pectoral muscles are stretched. This exercise protocol has been reported to provide relief in neck pain, improvement in CVA and shoulder angle. However, the number of studies examining the effect of corrective exercise program for the affected muscle groups in FHP on muscle activation parameters is limited, and there is no study examining the effect on the biomechanical properties of the muscles.

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the effect of corrective exercise program on alignment, muscle activation and biomechanical properties of muscles in medical students with forward head posture.

Enrollment

36 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 30 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Medical students with a Craniovertebral angle ˂ 50°

Exclusion criteria

History of chronic pain in cervical region
Presence of spinal deformity and malalignment
Disease, fracture or surgery affecting the spine-shoulder-pelvic region
Presence of malignancy
BMI outside the normal range
Presence of medical condition that prevents participation in physical exercise program
Presence of neuromuscular disease
Involvement in regular and professional sports activities