The adjunctive benefits of mirror cross education on kinetic chain exercise approach in volleyball athletes with scapular dyskinesis
| Autor: | Charilaos Tsolakis, Panagiotis Koulouvaris, Eleftherios Paraskevopoulos, Theocharis Simeonidis, Maria Papandreou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
biology Functional balance Athletes business.industry Mirror Movement Therapy Motor control Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation biology.organism_classification Biomechanical Phenomena Exercise Therapy Cross education Scapula Kinetic chain exercise Volleyball Physical medicine and rehabilitation Humans Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Analysis of variance business Scapular dyskinesis |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. 62 |
| ISSN: | 1827-1928 0022-4707 |
| DOI: | 10.23736/s0022-4707.21.12174-7 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Volleyball players as overhead athletes have the highest risk of developing Scapular Dyskinesis. The kinetic chain exercise-approach has gained a lot of attention because of its claims to provide an improved motor control and scapular kinematics. A form of cross exercise, known as mirror therapy, may enhance the effects of a Kinetic-Chain-Approach on scapular posture, upper and lower limb performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the adjunctive benefits of Mirror-Cross-Education in a Kinetic-Chain-Approach, in volleyball athletes with SD. METHODS 39 professional volleyball athletes were randomly assigned to three groups of 13 each, two experimental, the Mirror-Cross-Education and Kinetic-Chain-Approach, and one control. Both experimental groups performed a Kinetic-Chain-Approach programme, however, the Mirror-Cross-Education group performed the exercise programme with the addition of two mirrors that allowed athletes to observe their opposite non-dyskinetic scapula. Scapular posture asymmetries in cm, the Y-Balance and the Upper-Quarter YBalance after normalizing by limb length the reach distance in each direction, were assessed before and after performing each intervention for 6 weeks. RESULTS 3x2 two-way Mixed ANOVAs detected significant interactions on scapular posture (p=0.001) on both experimental groups when compared with the control. The Y-Balance and the Upper Quarter Y-Balance scores at both Mirror-Cross-Education and Kinetic-Chain-Approach groups showed significant differences when compared with the control (p |
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