The Effect of Eight Weeks Sahrmann's Present and Virtual Corrective Exercise Program on ‎the Upper Cross Syndrome of Female Teachers During the COVID-19 Pandemic‎

Abstract

Purpose:Considering the high prevalence of upper cross syndrome among teachers, it is necessary to always provide selected corrective exercises to increase productivity. One of the methods of providing corrective exercises in special conditions is virtual education. The purpose of the current research was to compare the effect of a course Sahrmann's corrective exercises at Present and virtual on the upper cross syndrome of femalee Teachers.Methods:The present study was a randomized clinical trial with a pre-test and post-test design. The number of 60 volunteer teachers who had the conditions to participate in the study according to the entry criteria were randomly divided into three groups of 20 people for present (with an average age of 45.90±3.07), virtual corrective exercises (with an average age of 43.30±4.84) and control group (with an average age of 42.70±5.11). Neck pain and disability were measured by scale questionnaire (NPDS), shoulder pain and disability by index questionnaire (SPADI), forward head angle, forward shoulder angle and uneven shoulder angle by photography method and AutoCAD software and kyphosis angle by Kyphometer. In the statistical analysis, after confirming the normality of the data, the parametric ANOVA test and in case of significance Bonferroni's post hoc test were used. \The nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test and U-Man-Whitney test with Bonferroni correction were used if the condition of normality has not been met.Results:The results of the research showed a significant difference between the control and two present and virtual training groups in all evaluation variables: angles of forward head, shoulder forward on the right side and left side, uneven shoulder on the right side and left side, neck pain and disability, kyphosis angle and shoulder pain and disability (p=0.001). There was a significant difference in the kyphosis angle and shoulder pain and disability variables in the comparison between the two present and virtual training groups (p=0.001). However, no significant difference was observed in other variables.Conclusion:Virtual corrective exercises using the various solutions presented achieved a result close to the present exercises. Considering the importance of teachers' health and the priority of rehabilitation goals in them, it is possible to recommend the use of virtual training in emergency cases that prevent present training.

Keywords

• teachers
• upper cross syndrome
• corrective exercises
• sahrmann's approach
• virtual ‎education