Relationship between forward head posture and sacral slope angle / Salma Mohamed Ahmed ; Supervised Alaa Eldin Abdelhakim Balbaa , Hamed Mohamed Elkhozamy

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Musculoskeletal Disorders

Back ground: Nowadays, maintaining in poor position for long time results in many musculoskeletal disorders. Forward Head Posture is one of them which characterized by upper cervical extension and lower cervical flexion. These changes in the cervical region may lead to altered location of the line of gravity. Mal-alignment make the body to recruit compensatory mechanism to maintain horizontal eye gaze and line of gravity within the base of support. Although the body compensate to maintain the erect posture, compensatory mechanism could result in adverse effects such as increase load on mechanical and neurological structures that lead to pain in distant area away from source of dysfunction. To our limited knowledge, these is the first study investigate the relationship between forward head posture and sacral slope angle. Purpose: to investigate the relationship between Forward Head Posture and Sacral slope angel in chronic neck pain patients. Methods: Forty patients of both genders 13 male and 27 female with chronic neck pain aged (18-30) years old, were recruited from the outpatient physiotherapy clinic of kaser elany medical school. Patients were divided into Group A (cranio-vertebral angel is < 45{u00B0}) and Group B (cranio-cervical angle is >45{u00B0}), the visual analogue scale, Oswestry disability index, electronic head posture instrument, x ray were used to measure neck pain, cranio-vertebral angle, back function, Sacral slope angle and Pelvic Incidence, respectively

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