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- Title
THE EFFECTS OF SPINAL TRACTIONS AND KINESIO TAPING IN THE REHABILITATION OF SCOLIOSES.
- Authors
DOBRECI, D. L.; ZAHARIA, ANA-MARIA
- Abstract
This paper tries to optimize the existent physical therapy programs for treating light scolioses in adolescents. Hypotheses: the use, during medical gymnastics programs, of spinal tractions and Kinesio Taping will lead to a faster and more effective improvement of light scolioses in adolescents. Material: the research was conducted at the Bacau Spinal Care Rehabilitation Clinic, where we used the BTL TRAC machine and traction table, and the Kinesio Tex Tape, as well as at the Faculty of Movement, Sports, and Health Sciences, the "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, where we conducted our aerobic gymnastics programs that were conceived and adapted for scoliosis rehabilitation. Method: the research was conducted on a group of 52 adolescents, 39 girls and 13 boys, aged between 13 and 15. The treatment was done over the course of 3 months, 3 sessions per week, during which we applied thoracolumbar vertebral elongations twice a week, taping applications twice a week, and adapted aerobic gymnastics three times a week. As assessment, we used the thoracolumbar X-ray, taken in standing position, for back and profile, taken initially and after three months. Results and conclusions: at the end of the study, the results were very good, in the sense that almost in every child who underwent our treatment of tractions and taping we observed, in the X-rays taken three months after the beginning of the treatment, a considerable improvement, close to normal, of the spine deviations, in a frontal and sagittal plane. Thus, the main conclusion of this study is that by combining within the medical gymnastics programs the spinal tractions and the Kinesio Taping, one can shorten considerably the rehabilitation period of light scolioses.
- Subjects
KINESIOLOGY; MEDICAL rehabilitation; MATHEMATICAL optimization; PHYSICAL therapy; EXERCISE therapy; MEDICAL sciences
- Publication
Sport & Society / Sport si Societate, 2014, Vol 14, p135
- ISSN
1582-2168
- Publication type
Article