The Correlation Between Neck Posture and Scapular Posture & the Effect Stabilization Exercises for the Scapula

Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Scapular Pain

Treatments

Behavioral: Self-Exercise only

Behavioral: Professional exercise rehabilitation therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07500571

Jeong Scapula protocol

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recently, many office workers and young people have postural abnormalities, including forward head posture (FHP) and rounded shoulder posture (RSP). Most of these patients often complain of pain in the entire scapular area, including the trapezius muscle. Few studies examined the effectiveness of intervention exercises often used by clinicians to correct posture in these patients through training protocols.

To compare and analyze the changes in scapular position between normal people and patients with FHP and RSP and to evaluate the effect of exercise therapy for 3 months in these patients, including clinical results and changes in scapular position and cervical angle through objective data.

Enrollment

56 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 40 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age between 20 and 40 years
those with a C-shaped lordotic curve of the neck without scapular pain
patients with Forward head posture and scapular pain
Willing to participate and provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Previous surgery on the affected shoulder or neck
Disc space narrowing in the C-spine, or evidence of arthritis on plain x-rays of the neck and shoulders
Frozen shoulders or suspected rotator cuff tears on ultrasound