Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: June | Volume: 10 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 233-238
Effect of Surya Namaskar on Hip Adductor Flexibility among Young Physiotherapy Students: A Pilot Study
Arpana Regmi1, Diker Dev Joshi2
1MPT Final Year Student, 2Lecturer, Department of Physiotherapy, Padmashree Institute of Physiotherapy, Bangalore.
Corresponding Author: Arpana Regmi
ABSTRACT
Background: As physiotherapists are the important healthcare professionals, their level of physical fitness, been in good terms, is mandatory. They require a good amount of flexibility and endurance to meet the professional demands. Enhanced flexibility of lower limb muscles play a crucial role for physiotherapists to maintain good fitness levels and prevent injuries. Such health-related awareness activities should be ingrained at the students level itself. Numerous studies have been done on the level of physical fitness among physiotherapy students based on the physical demands of the profession. Since, Suryanamaskar is one of the on growing techniques which deal with both physical and mental well-being. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of Suryanamaskar on specifically the hip adductor flexibility of physiotherapy students.
Methods: This was a pilot study done on 10 physiotherapy students. The subjects were selected by the inclusion criteria of subjects with hip adductor tightness, determined by self –administered positive test for limited flexibility (<90 degree bilateral hip abduction). Suryanamaskar was given as intervention program for four weeks. The measurement of Passive Hip Abduction (PHA) test was assessed for pre and post four weeks.
Results: In the present study, the statistical analysis showed there was a significant difference in pre and post scores of hip adductor flexibility test bilaterally with P value <0.005.
Conclusion: This study demonstrated that suryanamaskar is effective in improving hip adductor flexibility in a group of young physiotherapy students.
Key words: Physiotherapy students, Physical fitness, Hip adductor flexibility, Suryanamaskar