Comparison of Craniocervical Flexion and Scapular Stabilization Exercises in Forward Head Posture and Neck Pain

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

50

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

June 15, 2018

Primary Completion Date

February 20, 2019

Study Completion Date

March 15, 2019

Conditions
Cervical Pain
Interventions
OTHER

Craniocervical flexion exercises

Command the subject to be in crook lying position. Lock their finger to place their finger below the skull and retract the lower jaw and retract chin as far as possible. Subject has to slightly raise his/he skull a few centimeters. Fingers should be touching the cranium but not supporting it. Subject had to respire and hold the position. Subject has the move out the chin. Stop exercise and restart again. Perform this exercise for 10 times by holding this position for 20 sec at the start of the exercise, increasing it by 10 seconds every session commonly underwent pectoralis minor stretching before every session of exercise of 4 sets with 30 second's hold

OTHER

Scapular stabilization exercises

The scapular stabilization exercises were made up of four stages: (1) In supine position, the patient was commanded to deep respire for the sake of relaxation by maintain the cervical and shoulder in relaxing position to take a deep breath to relax the body while holding her shoulders and neck in relaxing position. (2) The patient then flex her knees and placed her feet flat on the plinth, and maintain the pose without any cervical movement. Then the patient asked to raise her dominant arm to 90° shoulder flexion with full elbow extension and scapular protraction. This position was sustained for 10 seconds before going to initial position. Three laps of 10 repetitions with one-minute interval in between were performed. (3) In quadruped position, the patient raise her arms alternatively with shoulder abduction and 120 ° flexion. That posture was held for 10 seconds before returning to the starting position. (4) In sitting position

Trial Locations (1)

54000

Akhtar Saeed Trust hospital, Falah o Behbud Associations and Medicare Hospital, Lahore

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Riphah International University

OTHER

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