Forward Head PostureRounded Shoulder PostureUpper Cross Syndrome
Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)
AI based exercisestandard corrective exercises
AI based exercise: receive AI-generated personalized exercise regimens from the APECS-AI app
standard corrective exercises: Each exercise session begins with 10 min of warm-up activity and ends with 5 min of cool-down. Selected exercises will be designed in two phases: first, and second phases. Exercises will be progressed in frequency and intensity during these phases
Study summary
this study will be to evaluate the effectiveness of AI-recommended exercise interventions versus standard corrective exercises in management of non-specific neck pain with forward head and rounded shoulder posture. with the goal of improving neck pain, functional disability, forward head, and rounded shoulder postures.
Eligibility
Sex
ALL
Min age
18 Years
Max age
35 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria: Subjects with non-specific neck pain who had localized neck pain felt it anywhere along the cervical spine, from the superior nuchal line to the first thoracic spinous process.
Neck pain between 3 and 8cm on a visual analogue scale. Subjects suffering from chronic (\> 12 weeks) neck pain. Subjects with forward head posture with craniovertebral angle (CVA) angle less than 50 degrees.
Subjects with rounded shoulder posture as shoulder angle \< 52. Subjects must not have received any pharmacological medication related to their musculoskeletal condition as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or muscle relaxant for at least three months prior to enrolment in the study.
Subjects must not have involved in any form of physical therapy or structured postural correction programs within the 6 months prior to study -
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Musculoskeletal diseases, cardiopulmonary diseases, and a history of surgery that could affect the experiment.
2. History of cervical spine injury or surgery.
3. Neck pain secondary to other conditions (e.g. Neoplasm, neurological diseases or vascular diseases).
4. Spondylosis and spondylolisthesis
5. A neurological disease, infection.
6. Inflammatory arthritis in the cervical spine.
7. Poor general health status that would interfere with the exercises -
Primary outcome measure(s)
The craniovertebral angle — 6 weeks forward head posture. will be measured by Kinovea software and the APECS AI app. More than 50 degrees is considered normal.
Shoulder angle — 6 weeks rounded shoulder posture will be measured by Kinovea software and the APECS AI app. more than 52 is considered normal
functional disability — 6 weeks is measured by neck disability index (NDI). A higher score reflects a greater level of neck disorder-related disability
pain level — 6 weeks It is measured by visual analogue scale (VAS). 10-cm line that represents a pain spectrum between "no pain" and "worst pain," as the word descriptions "no pain" on the left and "worst imaginable pain" on the right serve as anchors for the 100-mm-long horizontal line
This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.
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