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Moriyasu, Akito Rehabilitation Research Group for body and heart in Shikoku|Shikoku Physiotherapy Research group|Sakamoto Hospital
Bando, Hiroshi Tokushima University|Japan Masters’ Athletics Association KAKEN Search Researchers
Akayama, Ryosuke Japan Athletes Rehabilitation Trainers Association (JARTA)|Fitness and Conditioning School LibreBody
Wakimoto, Koichi SEISEN Medical Corporation
Dakeshita, Toshifumi SEISEN Medical Corporation
Inoue, Takuya Rehabilitation Research Group for body and heart in Shikoku|Shikoku Physiotherapy Research group
Taichi, Akihiro Shikoku Physiotherapy Research group
Murakami, Mitsuru Japan Masters’ Athletics Association
Keywords
Pole exercise
Vital capacity (VC)
Weight bearing index (WBI)
Physical flexibility
Exercise function
Content Type
Journal Article
Description
Background: Discussion has been continued about the stability of the spine, and relationship with physical flexibility and exercise function. We have continued physical rehabilitation for various subjects, and proposed clinical application for pole exercise. In this study, we investigated the efficacy of standing pole exercise.
Study protocol: The subjects were 9 healthy adults, 26.9 ± 5.9 years old. Method included standing pole exercise and 2 tests before and after the exercise. The exercise has 6 movements, including lateral bending, axis rotation, wave motion, backward spiral, forward spiral and warp and rounding. The pole was 160 cm in length, 610 g in weight. Two tests were percentage vital capacity (%VC) and weight bearing index (WBI), which showed significant differences between before and after the exercise (p<0.01).
Discussion and conclusion: Theoretical mode of spinal stability has relationship with inner/outer core stability, flexibility, expandability, curved angles in spinal alignment, and so on. In current study, standing pole exercise would be effective for increased %VC and WBI, which may be from increased flexibility and expandability. These data would be basal data for clinical application and research development in the future.
Journal Title
International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
ISSN
23299096
Publisher
OMICS International
Volume
6
Issue
1
Start Page
450
Published Date
2017-12-30
Rights
©2017 Moriyasu A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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