Impact of Standing and Sitting Postures on Spinal Curvature and Muscle Mechanical Properties in Young Women: A Photogrammetric and MyotonPro Analysis.

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the effect of standing and sitting positions on spinal curvatures evaluated using projection moire and muscle tone and stiffness using the MyotonPRO hand-held device in young women. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty-three healthy women, aged 21 to 23 years, volunteered in the study. We used the projection moire method to examine spinal curvatures in both positions and the MyotonPRO device to measure the tone and stiffness of muscles in 3 regions.

Frontal Plane Body Posture as a Predictor of Musculoskeletal Injuries in Amateur Athletes: A Comprehensive Study of 89 Participants Over 12 Months.

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate frontal plane body posture parameters as injury risk factors during physical activity in the previous 12 months. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 41 males aged 21.3±1.

Associated Risk Factors with Low Back Pain in White-Collar Workers-A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to compare the pressure pain threshold (PPT) of soft tissue and the curvatures of the spine in a sitting position and to estimate associated physical risk factors with low back pain (LBP) in young adults. Subjects: White-collar workers (n= 139), both women (n = 51) and men (n = 88) were separated into a control group (n = 82) and a low-intensity LBP (NRS < 3) (n = 57). Methods: The PPTs were tested utilizing the Wagner algometer.

Acute effects of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation exercises on the postural strategy in patients with chronic low back pain.

Introduction: Active treatments focused on improvement in motor function are postulated in chronic low back patients (CLBP).

Objective: to establish the acute effects of PNF exercise on the postural control strategy.

Methods: The sway of the body was tested before intervention in fifty-three CLBP patients and after that participants were randomly assigned into the intervention PNF group (n = 25).

Lumbar Spine Kinematics in Asymptomatic People When Changing Body Position From Sitting to Standing.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the lumbar spine kinematics in 3 movement axes in asymptomatic individuals in the sit-to-stand (STS) movement performed in a habitual, flexion, or extension manner.

Methods: There were 30 participants (16 women, 14 men), aged 23 to 37 years. Each participant performed an STS test.

Effect of Sacroiliac Joint Mobilization on the Level of Soft Tissue Pain Threshold in Asymptomatic Women.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of sacroiliac joint (SIJ) mobilization and/or self-mobilization on the level of soft tissue pain threshold in 21- to 23-year-old asymptomatic women (n = 20).

Methods: The FPIX Wagner Algometer was applied to compute the pressure pain threshold (PPT) over the right and left side of the iliolumbar ligament and lumbar erector spinae (L3). Measurements were taken of the right SIJ before and after a randomized protocol of oscillating mobilization, self-mobilization, and placebo treatment.

Active self-correction of spinal posture in pain-free women in response to the command "straighten your back".

Evidence is limited regarding the regional changes in spinal posture after self-correction. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether active self-correction improved standing and sitting spinal posture. Photogrammetry was used to assess regional spinal curvatures and vertical global spine orientation (GSO) in 42 asymptotic women aged 20-24 years.

The Effect of Chronic Pain Intensity on Sit-to-Stand Strategy in Patients With Herniated Lumbar Disks.

Objective: Recurrent symptoms of low back pain and its transition to a chronic state are associated with specific motor strategies used by people to avoid pain. The aim of the study was to determine the impact of chronic pain intensity on sit-to-stand (STS) strategy in chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients with herniated disks.

Method: Vertical ground reaction forces (counter, peak, and postpeak rebound) and their respective times of occurrence were measured on 2 Kistler force plates.

The effect of chronic pain intensity on the stability limits in patients with low back pain.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate if the intensity of recurrent chronic pain would modify postural performance in reaching the functional limits of stability (LOS) in chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients.

Methods: Three groups of subjects were investigated. Healthy persons comprised the asymptomatic group (n = 32) while CLBP patients (n = 36) were divided into 2 subgroups, according to the reported intensity of resting pain on a numerical rating scale: patients with low (LP) and high pain (HP) levels.

Anterioposterior spinal curvatures and magnitude of asymmetry in the trunk in musicians playing the violin compared with nonmusicians.

Objective: Playing an instrument often requires a certain posture and asymmetric position that may affect the anteroposterior spinal curvatures and may lead to postural asymmetry. The aim of the study was to evaluate the spinal curvatures in the sagittal plane and the magnitude of asymmetries in the trunk in the frontal plane in a group of music students in comparison with a control group.

Methods: The group of 67 students aged 20 to 26 years was made up of 2 subgroups: the musicians (violin playing students of the Academy of Music in Wroclaw) and the control group (physical therapy students who played no instruments).

The occurrence of strain symptoms in the lumbosacral region and pelvis during pregnancy and after childbirth.

Objective: The etiology and pathology of pain in the lumbosacral region and pelvis of pregnant women during and after pregnancy have not been fully determined. This study evaluated if lower back pain during pregnancy and after childbirth is connected with static alterations in the alignment of the pelvis, dysfunction of sacroiliac joints, and irritation of the pelvic ligaments and spine in the lumbosacral region.

Methods: This study was carried out on a group of 30 women in their eighth month of pregnancy and through 3 months after childbirth.

Postural control in patients with lumbar disc herniation in the early postoperative period.

Chronic spinal disc disease leads to disorders in postural movement coordination. An incorrect asymmetrical movement pattern for the lower limbs loading impairs proprioception and deteriorates postural stability, particularly when the vision is occluded. The standard surgical treatment improves biomechanical conditions in the lumbar spine, reduces pain, yet does it reduce the stability deficit in the upright position? An answer to the latter question would help work out targeted therapy to improve postural stability.

Postural balance in the early post-operative period in patients with intervertebral disk disease following surgery.

Background: The authors assumed that advanced lumbar disk disease contributes to disorders of body balance and asymmetry of foot pressure force on the ground. Surgery improves biomechanical relations in the lumbar spine, thus decreasing the disturbance of postural balance and foot load.

Material And Methods: The study was carried out among 40 patients treated in Military Clinical Hospital in Wroclaw due to a herniated nucleus pulposus in the lumbar region of the spine.

Pseudoradicular symptoms in patients exhibiting the lumbar spinal disc disease.

Introduction: The goal is to describe occurrences of functional motion system disorders in patients who exhibit the lumbar spinal disc disease. It is assumed that the lower back pain- radicular and pseudoradicular is caused by the lumbar spinal disc disease.

Material And Methods: Studies were performed in 19 patients who exhibited MRI determined hernia disc in the lumbar spine.

Mobility of cervical spine and postural equilibrium in patients with spinal overload syndrome.

Background: The spinal overload syndrome develops as a result of the gradual wearing away of the structural elements of the spine due to loads exceeding their endurance strength in the setting of reduced adaptability. The aim of the investigation was to study the limitation of mobility in the cervical spine and determine the effect of the spinal overload syndrome on postural equilibrium.

Material And Methods: The study enrolled 27 patients with signs of overload of the cervical spine.