Diaphragm Stretching Increases Spine and Thoracic Mobility

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Completed

• Conditions: Healthy
• Interventions: Other: Placebo.; Other: Diaphragm stretching.

• Registration Number: NCT01753726
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad de Granada

Brief Summary

Physical therapists have traditionally included various forms of manual therapy among the therapeutic approaches to spinal pathologies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diaphragmatic stretching on spine and thoracic movement in healthy adults.

Detailed Description

Spinal pain is a well recognized condition associated with significant personal and community burdens. Recent studies estimated the prevalence between 6 and 22% in neck pain, from 4-72% in thoracic pain and from 1.0% to 58.1% in low back pain, which increases with age. During the last decades numerous researches have been conducted on stretching effects, evidencing an increased muscle control, flexibility and range of motion. The main purpose of this investigation is to examine the effects of diaphragm stretching in spine and thoracic mobility in healthy subjects in order to apply the results in a specifics pathologies in future studies.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-06
• Study First Submitted: 2012-12-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-12-19
• Study First Posted: 2012-12-20
• Primary Completion: 2015-01
• Study Completion: 2015-05
• Status Verified: 2016-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-10-30
• Last Update Posted: 2016-11-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy subjects
• Age: between 18 and 65 years old.

Exclusion Criteria

• Pathological subjects

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Placebo group	Placebo.	37 healthy people were recruited in order to the inclusion criteria.
Experimental group	Diaphragm stretching.	43 people are recruited in order to the inclusion criteria for the study. They are healthy people. A diaphragm stretching technique was employed in this experimental group.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessment of lumbar mobility	up to 2 months	Schober test is a flexion trunk test to evaluate lumbar spine mobility. During this test, while the patient is in the standing position, marks are made in the midpoint between the posterior superior iliac spines (PSISs) and 10 cm superiorly to this point.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessment of trunk mobility	baseline, 2 months	In Finger to floor test, the subjects were stood on a stool and asked to flex the trunk forward in order to reach as far as possible with both hands, without blending their knees.
Cervical mobility	baseline, 2 months.	A Baseline Bubble Inclinometer, Fabrication Enterprises Incorporated, New York. USA, was used to measure de active range of motion of the cervical spine. The measurements were performed in two planes of movement, lateral flexion (frontal plane) the right and left side; and flexion-extension (sagittal plane)
Abdominal and Thoracic Dimensions and Kinematics	baseline, 2 months.	Abdominal and thoracic dimensions and kinematics measurements can be used as an evaluative method for diaphragmatic breathing excursion to quantify possible alterations in thoracic capacity and abdominal and chest wall compliance as achieved by all expiratory and inspiratory muscles

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Health Sciences. University of Granada.; 🇪🇸 Granada, Spain