Trunk Extension Endurance Among Physical Therapy Students

General Committee of Teaching Hospitals and Institutes, Egypt

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spine Injury

Treatments: Other: trunk extensors endurance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03107676

CMR-PT-2017-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

College students from physical therapy department will be assigned into four groups. Participants will be tested for trunk extensors endurance and will be given endurance training program to do at home for 6 to 8 weeks. Spinal mobility and lower extremity mobility will be measured. Isokinetic outcome measures for extension and flexion at two different speeds will also be measured at baseline, after 6 and 8 weeks.

Full description

Active physical therapy students who are healthy and free from any significant pain at the spine will be recruited to participate in intervention endurance training. Participants will be assigned into four equal groups; doing trunk extension form lying on stomach while breathing normally and arching trunk backwards as long as tolerated. Group one will have arms above head, group two will have hands behind head, group three will have hands parallel to the trunk, and group four will receive instructions only and will act as control group. Spinal mobility of forward bending, backwards bending, right and left side bending will be taken. Straight leg raising and quadriceps flexibility will also be taken. Isokinetic measurements including peak torque, peak torque/body weight, average peak torque, work and average power will be taken at baseline, 6 and 8 weeks. Participants will have a training volume of 2 sets of 10 repetitions, 2 minutes rest in between, 2x/day for 6 to 8 weeks. Endurance timing will be measured in seconds using stop watch. If participant managed to maintain the trunk extension position for 4 minutes, time is recorded and it is considered as ceiling time.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Active college student free from any spinal pain or pain 3/10 on pain intensity numeric pain rating scale, willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

• have had spinal surgery or pain at the spine more than 3/10 on pain intensity numeric pain rating scale.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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52 participants in 4 patient groups

trunk endurance with hands above head

Active Comparator group

Description:

participants had to practice trunk extensors endurance training with having hands above head.

Treatment:

Other: trunk extensors endurance training

trunk endurance with hands behind head

Active Comparator group

Description:

participants had to practice trunk extensors endurance training with having hands behind head.

Treatment:

Other: trunk extensors endurance training

trunk endurance with hands parallel

Active Comparator group

Description:

participants had to practice trunk extensors endurance training with having hands parallel to the trunk.

Treatment:

Other: trunk extensors endurance training

trunk endurance with no intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

participants will be tested for trunk extensors endurance with having hands on chest but no intervention.