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Through a three-dimensional modelling of human body, this study polygonally analyzed the effects of spine-strengthening exercises on improvement of standing posture asymmetry of teenagers suffering scoliosis. The subject of this study were teenage girls and were divided into "exercise group" and "...

Through a three-dimensional modelling of human body, this study polygonally analyzed the effects of spine-strengthening exercises on improvement of standing posture asymmetry of teenagers suffering scoliosis. The subject of this study were teenage girls and were divided into "exercise group" and "comparison group". 7 teen-patients suffering scoliosis whose Cobb"s angle was more than 10° were selected for the exercise group while 8 teenagers with less than 10° of Cobb"s angle were chosen for the comparison group. Comparison and analysis of each group"s physique, asymmetry factors led to conclusions as follows. 1. After comparing the physique of the comparison group and the exercise group, it fumed out that the height, weight, body mass index and skeletal muscle mass were significantly improved at the time of measurement. 2. After comparing the improvement of the standing posture asymmetry in the comparison group and exercise group, it turned out that the latter showed significant decreases in interactions of Pelvic-Shoulder Coronal and the time of measurement for Pelvic-Head"s Traverse and Coronal. Moreover, there were signigicant decrease among groups for the time of measurement in Trunk List and T10-L1 in Trunk Angle. In the case of C7-710, although there were no noticeable difference for C7-T10, the angle changed symmetrically. Furthermore, for Spine Angle, there were notable decrease during the period of measurement. Therefore, based on the results of this study, systematic spine-strengthening exercises were effective to improve physique, standing posture asymmetry. Consequently, this study is considered to be used as an important basic data when issuing an exercise prescription for patients with scoliosis.

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