Equilibrio postural - Centro de Atividade Corporal

The effects of proprioceptives exercises in the postural
balance of healthy and physically active adult women
Abstract
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Cássio Adriano Pereira ¹ 3
Luiz Antônio Domingues Filho ¹ 2
In Forma – Centro de Atividade Corporal 1
Mestre em Educação Física – Performance humana / UNIMEP 2
Especialista em Educação Física – Ginástica Corretiva / UniFMU 3
The aim of this study is to verify, with emphasys in the proprioceptive sensorial
system, if there is any improvement in postural balance of healthy and physically active adult
women. For this, 17 women were selected: a medium age of 46, 8 ± 11, 2 years old,
corporal mass of 64, 8 ± 10, 7 kg, a medium height of 159, 6 ± 5, 8 cm and a fat body’s
percentage of 26, 3 ± 7.4%. These women were divided into two groups: a training group
(TG= 9) and a control group (CG= 8). All of them were submitted to postural balance tests,
before and after the proposed program, according to TRITSCHLER test (2003). The TG was
submitted to a 12 weeks proprioceptive training using a balance disc and casio chronometer,
twice a weer and with duration of 10 to 15 minutes, always practicing the same exercises
they used to do before. The CG only continued to practice the same exercises they did
before starting the program. These data were statistically analyzed bases upon the
dependent Student “t’ test and the difference between these two groups was verified based
on a significance level of p