“Incidencia de la cervicalgia en posturas de antepulsión de cabeza en los estudiantes de la carrera de Terapia Física de la universidad técnica de Ambato”

Abstract

The present research project focuses on Incidence of cervicalgia in forehead posture positions in the students of the Physical Therapy career of the Technical University of Ambato. The content of the research comprises the most relevant aspects about cervicalgia in forehead posture positions. The interest in the present investigation is due to the need to know how great is the incidence in which the students have an inadequate use of mobile phones, tablets and computers resulting in an alteration of the position during the cervical movements. As well as the time spent in a single position and the inadequate postures they adopt influencing their biomechanics and their morphology, resulting in an inadequate weight loss in the cervical area, producing anatomical changes that cause pain to the mobilization. The research project consists of four chapters in which different topics were studied according to the importance they report to the study, this was limited to research in the students of the Physical Therapy career of the Technical University of Ambato