Significance of Cervical Flexors Strength Training Using EMG Bio-feedback on Forward Head Posture among College Students

Abstract

Background and Purpose: Forward Head Posture is found to be more among college students resulting indecreased Cervical flexors strength & reduction in physical performances. EMG Biofeedback is effectiveintervention in retraining the muscle strength & facilitates the correction of abnormal Cranio-Vertebral Angle(CVA) and purpose of this study is to find out the effectiveness of Cervical flexors strength training usingEMG Biofeedback among college students, to improve Forward Head Posture. Materials and Methods:Totally 30 college students selected under selection criteria ages between 18-25 with Forward Head Postureand randomly allocated equally into experimental group (EMG Biofeedback cervical flexors strengthening)and control group (only cervical flexors strengthening ex’s).The outcome tools used were Kinovea Softwarefor CVA and Neck Disability Index (NDI) which was measured before and after the treatment. Statisticalanalysis: Analyzed by paired and unpaired t test. Results: The results shows that Group A cervical flexorsstrength training using EMG Biofeedback has significant improvement on FHP by improving CVA andNDI (p <0.0001).Conclusion: This study concluded that the experimental group received cervical flexorsstrength Training using EMG Biofeedback is found to be effective than the control group received onlycervical flexors strengthening ex’s.