The Effect of Six Weeks Corrective Exercise on Upper-Crossed Syndrome of Overhead Athletes

The muscle imbalance caused by repeated overhead activities,affects the upper body posture and Over time, creates painful shoulder. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of six weeks corrective exercises on upper-crosssed syndrome in overhead athletes.

The method of research was semi-experimental . 33 athletes who had forward head and shoulder and hyperkyphosis at the same time were selected. Then, randomly divided to two control and experimental groups.

Ancova test showed, a significant difference in the angle of forward head and shoulder and kyphosis in two groups)F1,30 = 23.564, sig = 0.000, Eta = 0.440، F1,30 = 117.376, sig = 0.000, Eta = 0.796، F1,30 = 59.195, sig = 0.000, Eta = 0.664(. The results showed that forward head and shoulder and hyperkyphosis degree of experimental group were significantly decreasde after involving in the selected corrective exercise program.

Based on these findings for correcting upper crossed syndrome in overhead athletes it seems that designe and implement of corrective exerciser should be on correcting three abnormalities such as forward head and shoulder and hyperkyphosis and implemented with athletes special exercises at the same time. This program would result in decreasing upper crossed syndrome in overhead athletes