Regional Interdependence of the Shoulders and Hips in Gymnasts With Low Back Pain

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Conditions studied: Low Back Pain

In brief

Low back pain is a common condition in children who perform gymnastics. Commonly, the injury is not the result of a specific injury, but is a stress injury to the lumbar spine. Regional interdependence is a theory that suggests when adjacent joints and muscles are not working properly increased stress is placed on a particular joint. This theory would suggest that if a patient did not have enough hip extension to perform a back bend increased motion would occur in the lumbar spine allowing the gymnast to complete the technique. Currently, no research links impairments in other joints to low back pain in gymnasts. This is a cross sectional study assessing the relationship between gymnast with back pain and flexibility and strength of the shoulder and hip joints. Investigators will travel to a local gymnastics training centers and assess the gymnasts' strength and flexibility of the the hips and shoulders. The gymnast will also fill our a questionnaire assessing if they have had back pain in the past month and how much has it limited their ability to participate in gymnastics. Investigators will be blinded to the results of this survey. The goal of this research study is to see if there are any link between strength and flexibility of the hips, and shoulders and gymnasts with low back pain. The investigators hypothesize that gymnasts who demonstrates impairments in strength and flexibility of the hips, or shoulders will be more likely to have complaints of low back pain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02201966

Run by

Nationwide Children's Hospital

People needed

0

Starts

2014-08-01

Expected to finish

2015-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-07-07

Who can join

Age: 7 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• At least 7 years old
• Level 5 or higher gymnast
• Female

You may not qualify if…

• Patient with a injury to the shoulder, or hips that prevents them from performing gymnastics.
• Patients who are unable to follow directions.

Where it is running

• Buckeye Gymnastics — Powell, Ohio, United States

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