Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

Impact of Aerobic training on Gait Parameters of Obese College Going Students.

Vinay Jagga, Megha Gakhar

Abstract :

Obesity has been identified as public health challenge worldwide. As per National Family Health Survey–4 done in 2015–16, in India the prevalence of obesity is 12.6% in women and 9.3% in men. Obesity is associated with higher risk of mortality and morbidity, as it is the very important risk factor of non–communicable diseases like Ischemic heart disease and Diabetes mellitus.

Objective of this study was to investigate the effect of aerobic exercises on selected gait parameters of obese individual and compare with normal weight individuals.

Forty individuals (20 Obese and 20 Normal weight) enrolled and completed this quasi experimental study design. Only obese group had undergone Aerobic exercise programme but both groups had their gait parameters measured at starting and at the end of 4th, 8th and 12th week.

There was significant higher CD, and SW and lower WS, SL and StL in obese group than the normal weight group from starting to end of the exercise programme; however obese group had higher percentile change in all the parameters than the normal weight group.

We concluded that obese individuals have poorer gait parameters than the normal weight, where as aerobic exercise produce higher significant changes in all the gait parameters in obese than the normal weight individuals.

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Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijsr  

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Vinay Jagga, Megha Gakhar, Impact of Aerobic training on Gait Parameters of Obese College Going Students., INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-6 | June-2018


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