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abstractAn
empirical study of backward walking treadmill training on static and
dynamic balance in adolescent girls Baljinder Singh Bal1,
Gaurav Dureja2, Parminderjeet Kaur3 1Guru
Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India 2Post
Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh (U.T.),
India 3Baring Union
Christian College, Batala, India
Abstract
The
purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of backward walking
treadmill training on static and dynamic balance. Forty adolescent
girls (mean ± SD: age 15.55 ± 1.8 years, height
1.721± 0.00871 m, body mass 65.255 ± 0.468 kg),
who participated in interschool volleyball competition and in the Catch
Them Young (CTY) programme organised by Guru Nanak Dev University,
Amritsar volunteered to participate. All participants were informed
about the study aim and methodology as well as about the possibility of
immediate acceptance at any time of the experimentation.
Subjects agreed to the above conditions in writing. They were randomly
assigned into two groups: A (Training Group) and B (Control Group),
n=20 each. The subjects from training group were subjected to a 5-week
treadmill training programme. This lasted 5-weeks and consisted of
daily sessions, lasting 50 min each. The students completed the stork
stand and wobble board tests to determine static balance on the leg
respectively. The static and dynamic balance significantly improved in
training group compared with the control one. The backward training may
be recommended to improve static and dynamic balance and may contribute
to enhance concentration based performance.
Key
words:walk,
treadmill, static, dynamic
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An empirical study of backward walking treadmill training on static and dynamic balance in adolescent girls
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