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NCT Number: NCT07236385

AI Training Program vs Standard Correction for Forward Head and Rounded Shoulder in Neck Pain

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.

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This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Conditions

Forward Head Posture Oculocerebral hypopigmentation syndrome type Preus Rounded Shoulder Posture Upper Cross Syndrome

Age range

18 year–35 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Faculty of Physical Therapy

Cairo, Egypt

About this study

The aim of the current study is to evaluate the efficacy of APECS-AI app suggested exercises and standard corrective exercises in managing non-specific neck pain with forward head and rounded shoulders posture. Forty-six subjects of both genders between (18 and 35 years old) have non-specific neck pain with forward head and rounded shoulder posture will be enrolled in this study. The subjects will be randomized into two equal groups (n = 23 each): An intervention group (Group A), will receive AI-generated personalized exercise regimens from the APECS-AI app, and a control group (Group B), will perform standard corrective exercises

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

  • Musculoskeletal diseases, cardiopulmonary diseases, and a history of surgery that could affect the experiment.
  • History of cervical spine injury or surgery.
  • Neck pain secondary to other conditions (e.g. Neoplasm, neurological diseases or vascular diseases).
  • Spondylosis and spondylolisthesis
  • A neurological disease, infection.
  • Inflammatory arthritis in the cervical spine.
  • Poor general health status that would interfere with the exercises -

Treatment and study plan

AI based exercise

Other

receive AI-generated personalized exercise regimens from the APECS-AI app

standard corrective exercises

Other

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

Primary outcomes

  1. The craniovertebral angle

    Time frame: 6 weeks

    forward head posture. will be measured by Kinovea software and the APECS AI app. More than 50 degrees is considered normal.

  2. Shoulder angle

    Time frame: 6 weeks

    rounded shoulder posture will be measured by Kinovea software and the APECS AI app. more than 52 is considered normal

  3. functional disability

    Time frame: 6 weeks

    is measured by neck disability index (NDI). A higher score reflects a greater level of neck disorder-related disability

  4. pain level

    Time frame: 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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Cairo University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Artificial Intelligence Training Program Versus Standard Correction for Forward Head and Rounded Shoulder in Non-specific Neck Pain

Acronym: AI

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Nov 19, 2025
Registry last updated
Dec 9, 2025

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