A study on the effect of complex rehabilitation exericise methods through short-term active sling exercises and vibration balls on the upper limb muscle activity of people with myelopathy

The purpose of the present study is to verify the effectiveness of a muscle function improvement program by applying the complex functional exercise methods and active rehabilitation methods of sling exercises in accordance with the provision of vibration for people with myelopathy. Study subjects were 16 men in their 40s and 50s with lower limb disabilities. They were randomly divided into a sling exercise group (SG n=4), a sling with low frequency vibration group (SLVG n=4), a sling with mid-frequency vibration group (SMVG n=4), and a sling with high frequency group (SHVG n=4). The anterior deltoid (AD), the posterior deltoid (PD), the pectoralis major (PM), the upper trapezius (UT), the latissimus dorsi (LD), and the thoracic (TA) were measured to compare and analyze muscle activity. One-way ANOVA was conducted to compare the recovery effects by using SPSS 18.0 Korea. The statistical significance was accepted at p.