EFFECT OF SCAPULAR STABILIZATION EXERCISE USING A SUSPENSION DEVICE ON ALIGNMENT AND PAIN IN ADULTS WITH LOSS OF CERVICAL LORDOSIS

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of stabilization exercise the closed kinetic chain method and open kinetic
chain method applied to the scapular on the alignment and pain of adults with loss of cervical lordosis. The subjects of this
study were 20 adults with a cranioververtebral angle (CVA) of 55 degrees or more. This experiment was conducted during the
month of May 2022. Subjects were randomly divided into 10 people in the open chain scapular stabilization exercise group
and 10 people in the suspension scapular stabilization exercise group, and exercise was performed twice a week for 4 weeks.
As a result of the experiment, there was a significant difference in CVA measurement between the open chain group and the
suspension group before and after intervention within the group (p<0.05). In addition, as a result of comparison between the
open chain group and the suspension exercise group before and after the intervention, a significant difference was found
according to time (p<0.05), and an interaction between time and the group was found (p<0.05). There was no significant
difference in the post hoc test (p<0.025). There was also no significant difference between groups (p>0.05). In the CRA
measurement results of the open and suspension exercise groups, there was no significant difference before and after the
intervention within the group, and there was no interaction between time and group and between time and group before and
after the intervention between the open chain exercise and suspension exercise group (p>0.05). Both the open chain exercise
group and suspension exercise group showed a statistically significant decrease in pain score (p<0.05), and there was no
significant difference between the groups after the experiment (p<0.05). In this study, the effect of scapular stabilization
exercise for each type of exercise was confirmed for adults with a loss of cervical lordosis.