Diaphragm Stretching Technique Increases Spine Mobility and Thoracic Movement: a Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 80
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Assessment of lumbar mobility
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Healthy subjects
- •Age: between 18 and 65 years old.
排除标准
- •Pathological subjects
研究组 & 干预措施
Experimental group
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.
干预措施: Diaphragm stretching. (Other)
Placebo group
37 healthy people were recruited in order to the inclusion criteria.
干预措施: Placebo. (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Assessment of lumbar mobility
时间窗: 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.
次要结局
- Abdominal and Thoracic Dimensions and Kinematics(baseline, 2 months.)
- Assessment of trunk mobility(baseline, 2 months)
- Cervical mobility(baseline, 2 months.)
研究者
Marie Carmen Valenza
Assistant professor
Universidad de Granada