Abstract:
The adolescents aged between 15 and 17 with postural
disorders in the sagittal plane, who live in mountainous regions in the
Carpathians, achieve less than their peers with similar postural
disorders, who live in plain regions. The research aims to develop the
comprehensive programme for correcting postural disorders in the sagittal
plane among pupils, who live in mountainous regions in the
Carpathians, using physical rehabilitation, and establish the links
between empirical data of the experiment and neurosciences to develop
methods of complex psychophysical and neurophysiological diagnostic and
rehabilitation of adolescents with such disorders in further research. The
research is based on a detailed observation of 319 adolescents aged
between 15 and 17 from mountainous regions of the Ukrainian
Carpathians and 94 pupils from plain regions with postural disorders in
the sagittal plane. The research methods are the following: an analysis of
the scientific and specialized literature; surveys and questionnaires;
pedagogical tests; methods for determining the indicators of physical
development, functional readiness and functions of the spine; methods of
mathematical statistics, namely, the Ruffier-Dickson test, Otto test,
Schober test, Thomayer test, Fleischmann test, Sedin test and spinal
index, inclinometer measurements. The pupils who suffer from the stoop
and round spine have shown a decrease in average values in the angles of
lordosis and kyphosis curves; pupils who suffer from flat back – an
increase in the angles of the sacral bone, lordosis and kyphosis curves;
pupils who suffer from the round and concave back – a decrease in the
angles of the sacral bone, lordosis and kyphosis curves. The
implementation of the author’s programme for physical rehabilitation has
made it possible to achieve a statistically significant improvement in most
of the analyzed indicators. Finally, the article extrapolates the results of
the experiment to their neurophysiological and neuromedical application
in terms of enhancing anamnesis and taking into account post-correction
data in subsequent medical treatment
