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Can 5 minutes of repetitive prone press-ups and sustained prone press-ups following a period of spinal loading reverse spinal shrinkage?
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Physiotherapy Theory & Practice . Mar2019, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p259-267. 9p. 5 Color Photographs, 1 Diagram, 2 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate if sustained and repetitive prone press-ups could reverse decreased spinal height following spinal loading and if there was a correlation between the degree of end range of motion spinal extension and spinal height gains. Design: Pretest-posttest crossover design is used in this study. Setting: Study was carried out in research laboratory. Subjects: Forty-one healthy men and women were included in this study. Intervention: Participants were seated in the stadiometer for 5 min with a 4.5-kg weight placed on each shoulder; the load was removed for 5 min and spinal height was measured using a stadiometer before and after 5 min of repetitive or sustained prone press-ups. Main Measures: Two-by-two repeated-measures ANOVA to identify significant interactions and main effects is used in this study. Significance of α = 0.05. A Pearson correlation coefficient was used to assess the correlation between spinal height changes and spinal extension ROM. Results: Participants 24.1 ± 2.03 years grew using both repetitive (4.85 ± 3.01 mm) and sustained press ups (4.46 ± 2.57 mm). There was no significant interaction between the repetitive versus sustained press-ups and the time before and after each prone press-ups strategy and no main effect for strategy (sustained vs. repetitive press-ups). There was a significant main effect for time (before vs. after press-ups) (F(1,30) = 140.771; p < 0.0001; partial η2 = 0.82). No correlation was found between the degree of end ROM spinal extension and spinal height changes following press-ups strategies. Conclusion: Following periods of spinal loading, both repetitive and sustained press-ups increased spinal height. Such strategies could be used to help recover spinal height and limit the effects of decreased spinal height as a result of activities of daily living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SPINE diseases
*ANALYSIS of variance
*ANTHROPOMETRY
*STATISTICAL correlation
*CROSSOVER trials
*EXERCISE physiology
*INTERVERTEBRAL disk
*RANGE of motion of joints
*LYING down position
*MATHEMATICAL statistics
*STATISTICAL sampling
*SPINE
*T-test (Statistics)
*STATISTICAL power analysis
*ACTIVITIES of daily living
*PARAMETERS (Statistics)
*RANDOMIZED controlled trials
*PRE-tests & post-tests
*REPEATED measures design
*DATA analysis software
*WEIGHT-bearing (Orthopedics)
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*INFERENTIAL statistics
*INTRACLASS correlation
*PREVENTION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09593985
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Physiotherapy Theory & Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 133728288
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2018.1442539