The effects on the muscle activity profile during the short arc quad extension and the seated clam exercises when using biofeedback.
Item
- Title
- The effects on the muscle activity profile during the short arc quad extension and the seated clam exercises when using biofeedback.
- Author(s)
- Shackle, J
- Abstract
- Backqround Home rehabilitation exercises are widely used to compliment treatments. The effectiveness of home exercrses depends greatly on the patient's individual adherence to the prescribed exercise regime. lt has been suggested that adherence and force of contraction could improve if the patient had a feedback system. The feedback could be achieved using bathroom scales. lt is not known if the introduction of a biofeedback system in the form of the bathroom scales as mentioned above effects the activity profiles for the gluteal and the quadriceps muscles during rehabil itation exercises. Objective The objective of this study is to determine if the introduction of bathroom scales as a biofeedback system would affect the muscle activity profile of the vastus medius oblique (VMO), vastus lateralis (VL), gluteus medius (glute med) and gluteus maximus (glute max), with a focus on short arc quad extension (SAOE) exercise and the clam exercise including modified versions. Design A repeated measures matched pairs design. Methods 17 participants were recruited from the student population of the ESO. Surface electromyography (EMG) was used to record the muscle activity during some common and adapted rehabilitation exercises. Outcome measures used was the average amplitude, and the data was analysed using Microsoft Excel and Analyse-it software. Results The following data sets showed a statistical difference (<0.05):-Glute max; side-lying clam v's resisted side-lying clam (p=0.0391), glute med, side-lying clam v's seated clam without biofeedback (0.011), and glute max, side-lying clam v's seated clam with biofeedback (0.0459). All other data sets showed no significant difference. Discussion This study had a good demographic of participants, the reliability of capturing the same portion of muscle for each exercise was high, as was the level of inter-rater reliability for the converted data. A greater sample size would be of benefit, as would randomization of the order of exercises. Future research should also determine if these same results would apply to a symptomatic population. Conclusion Results suggest that introducing the scales as biofeedback to the SAQE exercise would not affect the efficiency of the exercrse, and may potentially enhance adherence to rehabilitation exercise programmes. The results for the clam exercise were inconclusive and further research is needed to obtain conclusive results.
- presented at
- European School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2017
- Date Submitted
- 4.12.2017 17:06:21
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 16062
- Inst-Identifier
- 1229
- Keywords
- Biofeedback, Clam, Electromyography, Rehabilitation
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Shackle, J, “The effects on the muscle activity profile during the short arc quad extension and the seated clam exercises when using biofeedback.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 4, 2025, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/474