Sağlıklı Kişilerde Servikal Bölgede Paravertebral Kaslara Uygulanan Lokal Vibrasyon ve Servikal Stabilizasyon Egzersizlerinin Etkilerinin Karşılaştırılması

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the effects of local vibration and cervical stabilization exercises on paravertebral muscles in the cervical region in healthy subjects. Forty-eight healthy subjects were included in this study. The cases were divided into stabilization group, vibration group and control group. While eight weeks of home exercise training was given to the stabilization group, the vibrating group was subjected to local vibration to the paravertebral muscles for eight weeks, three times a week. There was no application to the control group. All the cases participating in the study were evaluated twice before and after the eight week practice. As a result of the study, the stabilization group showed more improvement in muscle strength, ventral endurance, and normal joint motion than vibration and control group(p<0.05). Stabilization and vibration group showed improvement in joint position sense, whereas no improvement was observed in the control group(p>0.05). Significant increases were observed in the stabilization, vibration, and control groups of the Sensory Organization Test’s combined balance score and the Head Shaking Sensory Organization Test’s fifth condition, which measured the balance. While these improvements were greater in the stabilization and vibration group than in the control group, it was thought that the events in the control group were due to the fact that the events were regularly active and based on the learning ability on the device. These results suggest that healthy individuals prefer to use cervical stabilization exercises instead of local vibrations to improve muscle strength and endurance and improve normal joint motion. It was concluded that cervical stabilization exercises and local vibration exercises could be used and further study in this subject would be beneficial in order to improve the balance and increase the joint position sense.