Muscle Energy Technique on Forward Head Posture and Cervical Mobility in Visually Impaired Children

Egyptian Chinese University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Children With Visual Disabilities

Treatments: Procedure: muscle energy technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04716348

Egyptian Chinese University

Details and patient eligibility

About

Forward head posture is one of the most common postural deviation seen among visually impaired children and, it is characterized by hyperextension of upper cervical and flexion of lower cervical spine. These changes lead to muscle imbalance and resulting in weakness of the deep cervical flexors, shortening of the opposing cervical extensors and reduction in cervical range of motion. Muscle energy technique is a manual therapy technique using in the treatment of shortened muscles, muscle weakness, restricted joints range of motion. so this study aimed to investigate the efficacy of muscle energy technique on forward head posture and cervical mobility in visually impaired children.

Full description

subjects will be allocated according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria from different schools for visually impaired children. They will be divided randomly into study group and control group. Study group will be participated in suboccipital muscle energy technique. Control group will be participated in sham technique. The duration of treatment for both groups will be 3 times/week for 6 weeks. Autodesk AutoCAD software will be used to analyze the measured angles and CROM will be used to assess cervical mobility

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Visual acuity will be 6/24, 6/36 and 6/60 after correction.
• Wearing glasses more than one year.
• Craniovertebral angle < 50°.
• Functional hearing.

Exclusion criteria

• Injury of cervical region (e.g: atlantoaxial instability).
• Cervical spine deformities or/disorders.
• History of previous cervical spine surgery.
• Rheumatic and congenital heart disease.
• Regular participation in any sport activities.
• Intellectual or/mental disabilities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

group A

Experimental group

Description:

suboccipital muscle energy technique

Treatment:

Procedure: muscle energy technique

group B

Sham Comparator group

Description:

sham muscle energy technique

Treatment:

Procedure: muscle energy technique