Muscle Energy Technique on Forward Head Posture and Cervical Mobility in Visually Impaired Children

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Children With Visual Disabilities
• Interventions: Procedure: muscle energy technique

• Registration Number: NCT04716348
• Lead Sponsor: Egyptian Chinese University

Brief Summary

Forward head posture is one of the most common postural deviation seen among visually impaired children and, it is characterized by hyperextension of upper cervical and flexion of lower cervical spine. These changes lead to muscle imbalance and resulting in weakness of the deep cervical flexors, shortening of the opposing cervical extensors and reduction in cervical range of motion. Muscle energy technique is a manual therapy technique using in the treatment of shortened muscles, muscle weakness, restricted joints range of motion. so this study aimed to investigate the efficacy of muscle energy technique on forward head posture and cervical mobility in visually impaired children.

Detailed Description

subjects will be allocated according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria from different schools for visually impaired children. They will be divided randomly into study group and control group. Study group will be participated in suboccipital muscle energy technique. Control group will be participated in sham technique. The duration of treatment for both groups will be 3 times/week for 6 weeks. Autodesk AutoCAD software will be used to analyze the measured angles and CROM will be used to assess cervical mobility

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-01-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-01-15
• Study First Posted: 2021-01-20
• Study Start: 2021-02-01
• Status Verified: 2021-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-05-09
• Last Update Posted: 2021-05-11
• Primary Completion: 2021-06-01
• Study Completion: 2021-06-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Visual acuity will be 6/24, 6/36 and 6/60 after correction.
• Wearing glasses more than one year.
• Craniovertebral angle < 50°.
• Functional hearing.

Exclusion Criteria

• Injury of cervical region (e.g: atlantoaxial instability).
• Cervical spine deformities or/disorders.
• History of previous cervical spine surgery.
• Rheumatic and congenital heart disease.
• Regular participation in any sport activities.
• Intellectual or/mental disabilities

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
group B	muscle energy technique	sham muscle energy technique
group A	muscle energy technique	suboccipital muscle energy technique

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change in craniovertebral angle	baseline pre intervention and immediately after the intervention	analysis of craniovertebral angle form lateral view performed by AUTOCAD program
change of cervical range of motion	baseline pre intervention and immediately after the intervention	measurement of cervical range of motion including cervical flexion, cervical extension, cervical side bending, and cervical rotation. these measurement will be applied by CROM device

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Noha Elserty; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt