The effect of bridge exercises on the postural deviations and spinal cervical vertebrae deformities among wrestlers

Abstract

This study aims to identify the effect of these exercises on the bridge skill on the cervical vertebrae of the players, using modern technology by the Posture Pro 8 device, which is a high-tech devein determining the prediction of future deformations, which may occur as a result of practices and exercises that lead to the occurrence of complications, and the study sample was selected from the players of the Shooting Sports Club in Mahalla city in Egypt, and the bridge exercises were applied to that sample, and the results of the study showed no change the significant effect of bridge exercises on the occurrence of anterior or lateral deviations in the cervical vertebrae, as shown by the results of the studies. It founds that all values of the effect size in the frontal and lateral deviations are less than 80.0, which is of unremarkable effect and the total deviations between the pre and post-measurements of the group under study have an unremarkable effect as well, as the value of the rate of change ratios ranged between 0.441%.