A comparative study of lumbar spine range of motion in hockey players and a matched group of the general public.
Item
- Title
- A comparative study of lumbar spine range of motion in hockey players and a matched group of the general public.
- Author(s)
- Reeves, H
- Abstract
- Background: Hockey is a physically demanding sport that involves player to adopt a position of lumbar flexion and rotation during a game. Studies have found low back pain is a common complaint of hockey players, but few studies investigate the player's lumbar motion. Objective: To determine if there is a difference between hockey players and the general public lumbar spine range of motion and if so, to what degree? Design: Causative observational study. Methods: Hockey players, spectators from Sevenoaks Hockey Club and members of staff and students at the European School of Osteopathy (ESO) were used (age and gender matched). Height, weight, age, gender, BMI and Modified Schobers Test (MST) readings were taken from each participant. Exclusion criteria of currently suffer with low back pain or current injury. Shapiro Wilk test was run on the MST readings to see if data was normally distributed. As one of the two groups was skewed, Mann Whitney U test was used. Baseline characteristics (mean, median and standard deviation) of group's height, weight, age, body mass index (BMI) and MST were also calculated. Results: Twenty-seven students and twenty-six players were recruited. The mean MST reading of the players was 5.l9cm, (SD 1.40.) and 5.52cm (SD 1.16.) for the general public. Shapiro WOK test was run on both sets of data: Hockey players P=0.4292 and students P=0.5444. Mann Whitney U test result P=0.4229. Discussion: As the Mann Whitney U test resulted in a P>0.05 for the MST readings, indicates to accept the null hypothesis: There is no difference in lumbar spine range of motion in hockey players. However, the majority of the sample of ‘general public' used is not representative of the wider general public, as students at the ESQ are generally active members of the population. Also, the mean MST readings of the general public in this study do not compare with that of the normative values of MST population data. Conclusion: There is no difference between hockey players and the general public lumbar spine motion. Further research is needed into other variables that may affect lumbar movement, such as psoas tightness, pain rating, player position on the pitch, how long a player has been playing for and special techniques used.
- presented at
- European School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2016
- Date Submitted
- 2.12.2016 17:29:04
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 15961
- Inst-Identifier
- 1229
- Keywords
- Hockey player, lumbar spine, range of motion.
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Reeves, H, “A comparative study of lumbar spine range of motion in hockey players and a matched group of the general public.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 28, 2024, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/520