The Recovering Strategy on Forward Head Posture in Chinese Adolescents: Tai Chi and Manual Therapy

Northeast Normal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Forward Head Posture

Treatments: Behavioral: Tai Chi and Manual therapy; Behavioral: Manual therapy; Behavioral: Tai Chi

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05804539

CCEE2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Forward head posture (FHP) is a prevalent deformity that can cause various health issues in adolescents. The programs combining manual therapy (MT) and stability exercises (SE) have shown better effectiveness than stability exercises and home exercises in recovering FHP. However, the effectiveness of the therapy program consisting of Tai Chi and MT for recovering FHP remains unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of Tai Chi with MT on FHP recovery. Meanwhile, with a particular focus on personalized medicine, we utilized explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to predict if individuals would reverse to healthy posture based on different interventions.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. who was diagnosed as FHP;
2. whose age was between ten to nineteen years old.

Exclusion criteria

1. who had nervous system disease or musculoskeletal system disease;
2. who had congenital scoliosis or congenital malformation disease;
3. who participated in other sports training;
4. who participated in other training program in the past of three months before the beginning of the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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65 participants in 3 patient groups

Manual therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Each lesson has a duration of 40 minutes, including the first five minutes of warm-up, 30 minutes of manual therapy and the last five minutes of cool-down.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Manual therapy

Tai Chi

Experimental group

Description:

Each lesson has a duration of 40 minutes, including the first five minutes of warm-up, 30 minutes of Tai Chi and the last five minutes of cool-down.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tai Chi

Tai Chi and Manual therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Each lesson has a duration of 40 minutes, including the first five minutes of warm-up, 15-min Tai Chi exercise and 15-min manual therapy, with the order of intervention being Tai Chi exercise first and then manual therapy, and the last five minutes of cool-down.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tai Chi and Manual therapy