Spinal Stabilization Exercise Effects in Hypermobility

Ataturk Training and Research Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Hypermobility Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: spinal stabilizaton exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02869373

2015-64/82

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of an 8-week lumbar spinal stabilization exercise program on pain, trunk muscle endurance and postural stability in women with benign joint hypermobility syndrome

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• volunteers in an age range of 18 to 30,
• being women,
• having benign joint hypermobility syndrome diagnosed according to the Brighton criteria,
• having no contraindication to join an exercise program.

Exclusion criteria

• having rheumatologic or neurologic diseases,
• any other pathology involving the musculoskeletal system-history of fractures, joint dislocations, sprains and strains,
• associated connective tissue disorders including Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta,
• severe psychological disorders,
• being pregnant,
• intervention including exercise or physical therapy in the last 3 months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

spinal stabilization exercise program was applied

Treatment:

Behavioral: spinal stabilizaton exercise

Control

No Intervention group