Abstract
Among acrobatic rock and roll dancers, the exercises for core muscle strengthening are kept in the background because the dancers learn several acrobatics and choreography and they keep preparing for the competitions. The aim of the study was to improve the dancers’ lumbar motor control, their core muscle strength and its stabilizing role, their balancing ability and the functional status of the spine with a three-month dynamic stabilization programme. We carried out a quantitative, prospective and longitudinal study. Our convenience sampling was non-randomised. The participants (n=34) were divided into two groups: the intervention group and the control group. Outcome measurement included Core Test (CT), Flamingo Balance Test (FBT), Lumbar Motor Control Test (LMCT) and the Roland-Morris questionnaire. For summarizing and analysing the data we used Microsoft Office Excel 2010, we did descriptive statistics and difference examinations (two-sample t-tests, paired t-test). There were no significant differences (p=0.054) in the age between the intervention (14.75±1.6) and control group (15.7±1.35). In the intervention group we found significant differences (p<0.001) between the pre and the post-test in the CT (pre-78.69±44.25; post-140± 45.24), FBT (pre-5.74±6.62; post-2.7±4.7) and LMCT (pre-0.9±1.4; post-0.1±0.6). We did not find significant differences in the control group none of the tests (CT- p=0.29; FBT- p=0.4; LMCT- p=0.09). In the intervention group before the training programme there were 9 “yes” responses which mean dysfunction in the spine during everyday movements, after the training we found 7 positive responses. The number of “yes” respondents was also reduced while in the control group it was increased. Based on the international literature and on the results what we achieved, we concluded that a core-strengthening training programme has a beneficial effect on the acrobatic rock and roll dancers, therefore it is worth using such programmes.
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