Three Great Exercises to Improve Your Flexibility - and How to Get Started
Introduction
Keeping your body flexible is key for dodging (aka reducing the likelihood of) injuries, maintaining good posture, and ensuring smooth joint movements. Being ‘flexible’ facilitates your muscles to work effectively without straining.
Flexibility also helps with blood circulation, delivering much-needed oxygen and nutrients to your body, which can speed up recovery after workouts and…
6 Quick Tips On How to Effectively Deal with Neck and Back Pain
6 Quick Tips On How to Effectively Deal with Neck and Back Pain
Introduction
Millions of people worldwide suffer from neck and back pain, and it can be caused in many different ways including through injury, poor posture, stress, and even through poor diet. If you are one of these people, you know how debilitating it can be. Luckily, there are ways to deal with the pain that do not involve surgery or medication. In this article, we will briefly discuss some…
A Study to Find Out the Effect of Arm Movement through Sensory Based Game on Improving Postural Control in Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy
by Abhirupa Chakraborty | Mrs. Anurupa Senapati "A Study to Find Out the Effect of Arm Movement through Sensory Based Game on Improving Postural Control in Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy"
Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-1 , December 2020,
Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/other/38159/a-study-to-find-out-the-effect-of-arm-movement-through-sensory-based-game-on-improving-postural-control-in-spastic-diplegic-cerebral-palsy/abhirupa-chakraborty
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INTRODUCTION Poor control of trunk postural muscles and sensory disturbance is the key feature of children with cerebral palsy. These impairments affect the activities of daily living. It has been hypothesized that arm movement through sensory based game enhance proprioceptive and vestibular integration, resulting in improvement of spatial awareness, co contraction, postural stability and anticipatory motor or postural control.OBJECTIVE To enhance postural control following arm movement through sensory based game.DESIGN Pre test post test experimental designSETTING Occupational Therapy department, Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Olatpur, Odisha, 754010PARTICIPANTS 30 children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy randomly allocated into two groups each with 15 subjects in experimental group mean age=4.9 years and control group mean age=5.36 years . Baselines were collected for all subjects by using GMFCS, GMFM 88 and TCMS.INTERVENTION Subjects of both the group were provided therapy sessions for 45 minutes per day, 5 days in a week for 6 weeks. Both groups had received convensional occupational therapy for 45 minutes. The experimental group had received conventional occupational therapy for 15 minutes and sensory based game for 30 minutes. Sensory based game includes 5 games. They were intermittently structured according to sensory requirements. Post test measurement were assessed after 6 weeks.OUTCOME MEASURE TCMS,88GMFM,88 GMFCSRESULT From the statistical result of this study, it is seen that the subjects with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy improved in their GMFM and TCMS score on both the groups. However, the subjects in the experimental group have shown better effect than control group.CONCLUSION It can be concluded that conventional occupational therapy can include sensory based game which enhance active participation of children and ultimately increase motor control leads to postural control.
How to Maintain Spinal Health when Going through Boot Camp-Style Exercises
How to Maintain Spinal Health when Going through Boot Camp-Style Exercises
Boot camp-style training and fitness regimens are all the rage in Seattle, and the rest of the United States.
These are often regarded as high-intensity programmes that can provide significantly visible results in a shorter amount of time than other low-intensity exercise programmes, such as yoga.
However, these kinds of methods can often take a toll on your body. The level of exertion…
There are many detrimental effects of sitting in addition to the physical inactivity itself, which has links to obesity, diabetes and so on.
For example, when standing, the spine has a characteristic ‘s’ shape whereas sitting curves the spine into a ‘c’ shape, which compresses the discs between the vertebrae and can increase the risk of back injury.
Effects of backpack and double pack loads on postural stability.
Background
Measurement of postural stability is crucial for identifying predictors of performance, determining the efficacy of physical training and rehabilitation techniques and evaluating and preventing injuries, particularly for heavy load carriage in hikers, mountain search and rescue personnel and…
In the world of fitness, the term ‘core’ refers to the muscles in your midsection. This includes all of your abdominal muscles, your pelvic floor muscles, and the muscles in your middle and lower back. These muscles provide a link between your upper body and your lower body. Practically every time you move, you engage your core muscles, whether you are playing sports, cleaning the house, or…
