The Effect of Back Muscles Activation on Idiopathic Scoliosis Using Surface Electromyography

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Idiopathic Scoliosis

Treatments: Behavioral: gait with leg length discrepancy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05333796

B-2203-747-302

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of back muscle activations on idiopathic scoliosis

Full description

• Design: Prospective study
• Setting: hospital rehabilitation department
• Intervention: Participants were asked to walk with a surface electromyography(EMG) attached to their back muscles. After repeating the same process with different leg lengths discrepancy (0cm, 0.5cm, 1cm), participants are compared the main outcome measures.
• Main outcome measures: surface electromyography(EMG)

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy children (5 to 12 years old)

Exclusion criteria

• Children with leg length discrepancy over 0.5cm
• Children complaining of acute low back pain
• Children with spinal scoliosis
• Children with cerebral palsy, muscle paralysis, polio, congenital spinal abnormalities
• Children who underwent spinal surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy children (5 to 12 years old)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: gait with leg length discrepancy