An interventional study of manuel therapy cervical spine and control group in Loss of Balance, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 75 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-03-18.
Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
In more than 90% of cases, victims of fall are elderly people over 65. Nearly the third of those people fall at least 1 time by year. The incidence substantially increases for people over 80 and women are at higher risk than men.
The value of balance rehabilitation no longer needs to be demonstrated in Gerontology. Nevertheless, a more specific therapy based on the aged-related cervical problems seems to be essential. Indeed, those problems are numerous (arthrosis-like pains, joint stiffness, muscular contractures...) and often lessen vestibular and/or proprioceptive afferents. The cervical spine is a link between different systems which regulate balance, as the visual, vestibular and cervical systems (muscular, articular afferents...), and this role is key to balance control. Indeed, the cervical spine owns an exceptional function thanks to Ruffinian corpuscles, muscle and neurotendinal spindles.
Many studies point up the importance of the relation between balance, cervical spine and vestibular system, and others between tissue changes and postural adaptations in elderly people. Nevertheless, the take into consideration of all these data and their impacts in rehabilitation has not been reported yet.
This brings us to question the added-value of a cervical mobility management in balance rehabilitation in Gerontology.
Exclusion Criteria:
Other: manuel therapy cervical spine
Other: control group
the manuel therapy in physiotherapy is focused on the cervival spine
the manuel therapy in physiotherapy is classic and not focused on the cervival spine
Percentage decrease of the wobbling surface eyes open on steady ground, on a posturology platform
To compare the balance improvement, thanks to a posturology platform, between 2 groups of elderly patients hospitalized for balance disorders, in order to highlight the way of manual therapy in physiotherapy, focused on the cervical spine, can increase these parameters and contribute to lessen the risk of falls in elderly people.
Time frame: at 3 weeks
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