60
Participants
Start Date
November 1, 2021
Primary Completion Date
January 1, 2022
Study Completion Date
January 1, 2022
Pilates mat exercises
"Pilates mat exercises: Each Pilates session will last for one hour and commence with a 10 minute warm up and finish with a 10 min cool down. The subjects will be taught the 5 key elements of Pilates (lateral costal breathing, centring which is a neutral position of the lumbar spine with activation of the core muscles, ribcage placement, shoulder blade placement and neutral position of the cervical spine with slight upper cervical flexion at the cranio-cervical junction).~Pilates exercise program will consist of warm up exercises, main treatment program (10 level) and cooling down exercises."
cervical stabilization exercises
training of deep cervical flexor muscles with pressure biofeedback unit, 20 min/day, 3 days/week for 12 weeks.
conventional physiotherapy
10 min hot pack on cervical area range of motion exercises and isometric neck exercises as a home program 3 days/week for 12 weeks
Faculty of Physical Therapy-Cairo University, Giza
Cairo University
OTHER