Virtual Reality in Young Adults With Hamstring Shortening

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Hamstring Muscle Tightness

Treatments: Other: Traditional physical therapy programme; Device: Virtual reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07238491

11328 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Tightness of hamstring muscle is known as a reduction in range of motion accompanied by a sensation of restriction in the posterior aspect of thigh. Numerous reasons can cause it, such as genetic susceptibility, compensatory tightness due to persistent abnormalities, and muscular strain. Tight hamstrings cause a small amount of knee flexion during exercise and require comparatively high quadriceps efforts to offset the hamstrings' passive resistance. This could result in knee joint pain that affects gait and raise the reaction forces at the patellofemoral joint.

Enrollment: 84 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants with tightness of hamstring muscle with the degree of flexion for knee joint more than 20° throughout active knee extension (AKE) test.
• Their age between 18 and 30 years.
• BMI less than 30 kg/ m2 .
• Sedentary lifestyle that includes sitting on the chair for long period of time for minimum 6 hours per day, 5 days/week for 6 months minimally.
• Participants who did not engaged in a physiotherapy programs in the previous 6 months.
• Absence of fractures, injuries or medications (such as analgesics or muscle relaxants) that may affect the results of the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Any neurological diseases (such as; severe disc prolapse and radiating pain).
• Injury of hamstring in the previous 2 years.
• History of knee injury.
• Fracture in lower extremity or the spine.
• Surgery in the spine.
• Unequal leg length > 2cm.
• Congenital deformity.
• Orthopedic disorders such as patellofemoral pain syndrome, musculoskeletal pain, psychiatric problem.
• Any systemic disease, hearing or visual deficits, cognitive, or cardiovascular complications, and pregnancy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A (Virtual reality group)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive virtual reality (VR) in addition to the traditional physical therapy program 2 times/week for 5 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: Virtual reality

Other: Traditional physical therapy programme

Group B (control group)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will receive a traditional physical therapy program only, 2 times per week for 5 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional physical therapy programme