Analysing Postural Deviations in Swimmers: An Observational Study of Forward Head Posture, Rounded Shoulders and Scapular Dyskinesia
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Swimmers, Posture, Forward head posture, Rounded shoulder, Scapular dyskinesia.Abstract
Purpose- Swimming has become one of the commonest sports around the world. There is continuous overhead activity and approximately 4000 revolutions in each training session. This continuous overuse, abuse, misuse of a particular group of muscles causes hypertrophy of shoulder muscles. These changes in the posture lead to painful conditions at shoulder like subacromial impingement, bursitis, rotator cuff pathologies and supraspinatus tendinopathy due to reduced subacromial space. The purpose of the study is to observe forward head posture, rounded shoulders and scapular dyskinesia in swimmers.
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