Volume : IX, Issue : IV, April - 2019

EFFECT OF BACK AND LEG STRENGTHENING ON CADENCE IN OBESE ADULTS.

Shumaila Sayed D, Dr. Gargi Bhalekar Pt

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Aim: To study the effect of back and leg strengthening on cadence in obese adults. Need of study: Obesity causes gait problems such as reduced stride length & increased cadence, there is also reduced muscles strength which leads to reduction in the gait speed. Many studies have been done on the gait analysis and the walking improvement in obese who suffer from low back pain but no studies were done individually on the improvement of the cadence by increasing muscle strength hence the need of the study is to see the effect of back and leg strengthening on cadence in obese adults. Design: Randomized control trial. Procedure: Ethical approval had been taken & written consent had been taken from the subjects, subjects were randomly assigned into experimental & control group, the interventional group was given a 6 week strength training of 3 days/ week; and the control group performed AROM which was recorded through telephonic conversation, the cadence, back & leg MMT, functional gait assessment scoring (FGA) was assessed before and after 6 weeks for both the groups. Result: The strength training program improved the back extensor and leg strength relative to the control group (1.14 ± 0.57 , 0.92 ± 0.14 ; p= 0.002) and the FGA score had no significant impact of strength training in the experimental group (2.64 ± 2.21; p= 0.341) this did not reach significance, the interventional group showed a greater improvement in the cadence as compared to the control group (–7.9 ± –4.36; p= 0.021). Conclusion: The use of strength training program produced modest improvements in patients walking speed that is; the cadence, back extensor strength and leg strength gain is an important contributing factor in improving walking in obese adults. Responders to resistance training had greater improvements than those who did not receive training. There was significant improvement in both groups MMT & FGA score, but there was greater improvement in the training group.

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EFFECT OF BACK AND LEG STRENGTHENING ON CADENCE IN OBESE ADULTS., SHUMAILA SAYED D, DR. GARGI BHALEKAR (PT) INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-4 | April-2019

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