BODY POSTURE IN GIRLS AGED 13-18 INVOLVED IN SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

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BODY POSTURE IN GIRLS AGED 13-18 INVOLVED IN SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

Journal Title: Medycyna Sportowa - Year 2010, Vol 26, Issue 3

Abstract

[b]Background. [/b]Competitive sport is one of the many forms of physical activity undertaken by humans. Children usually start training at a very young age, therefore, it affects their body postu-res as well as their physical and motor development. There are conflicting opinions about the ef-fects of swimming training on the formation of spinal cun/atures, the development and advance-ment of faulty posture [1]. There is no research yet on the relationship between body posture and synchronized swimming. The purpose of this study was to determine differences in body build and the preyalence ratę of yarious types of deformations, as well as to check whether there is any relationship between water sports and body posture. [b]Material and methods.[/b] The research was conducted on a group ofsixty-six girls divided into: a) study group training synchronized swimming for minimum 4-5 years, b) the control group, not involved in any sport. The tests were carried out in 2007 in Poznań, Poland. One method of as-sessment of body posture was used: a computer analysis of body posture by S-posturometr. For analysis ofthe results obtained during tests we used Statistica 7th program. We applied the Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman's rank correlation test.[b]Results. [/b]Studies have shown that synchronized swimmers had morę correct postures than the control group. Additionally it was found that most of a girls from both groups had lordosis II.[b]Conclusions.[/b] Synchronized swimming (in study group) has no negative impact on body posture.

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Zuzanna Maćkowiak, Marzena Wiernicka

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