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Pilates Exercises on Pain, Functional Disability and ROM Among Children With Text Neck Syndrome

NCT06893705 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2025-09-26

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Summary

Text Neck' is a term used to describe a posture that is caused by leaning forward for long period of time such as reading or texting on smartphone. Neck pain, discomfort, reduced function and limited range of motion are the signs of text neck. Forward head posture is the most common cervical issue in the sagittal plane. Neck pain interferes with daily life activities. Pilates exercise program is the most appropriate exercise program for the prevention of forward head posture. For improvement with neck pain and activity limitation 24 Children with age 12-17 year will be randomly assign in 2 groups.

Group A will receive conventional physical therapy program for the affected neck like stretching exercises, active range of motion exercise, and neck isometrics for 6 weeks (3 sessions per week). The treatment duration will be of 50 min. On the other hand Group B will receive Pilate's exercises like cat stretch, swan dive/roll up along with conventional therapy for 6 weeks(3 sessions per week). In each session there will be 25 minutes of conventional therapy and 25 minutes of Pilate's exercises program. Then evaluate both groups on follow up.

All data will be collected from Gov. High School Niaz Baig by using Visual Analogue Scale, Functional Disability Index questionnaire and Goniometer. The reliability and validity of tools are mentioned.

The duration of study will be 6 months. Data will be analyzed with the help of SPSS 25.

Conditions

  • Children, Adult

Interventions

OTHER

Conventional Therapy

Conventional Therapy Group: Group A will be control group which will receive conventional physical therapy program for the affected neck like stretching exercises, active range of motion exercise, and neck isometrics for 6 weeks (3 sessions per week).

OTHER

Pilates+Conventional Therapy

Group B will be experimental group, which will receive Pilate's exercises like cat stretch, swan dive/roll up along with conventional therapy for 6 weeks(3 sessions per week). In each session there will be 25 minutes of conventional therapy and 25 minutes of Pilate's exercises program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Riphah International University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aira Eman, MS-PPT · Study Principal Investigator

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-03-14
Primary Completion
2025-04-28
Completion
2025-05-12

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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