A method healthy gymnastics school age: the aesthetic group gymnastics

Abstract

The postural habits are consolidated during childhood and adolescence. It has been recorded in the last decades a significant increase of the back pain and spinal misalignments increasingly at younger ages, possibly due to muscle imbalances. In this context, the Aesthetic Group Gymnastics (GEG), sport that born during the early nineteenth century in northern Europe, to whom recent studies attribute significant health and postural benefits. In addition to the educational values that are associated with different gymnastic sports, this artistic, expressive and group sport is based on a especially careful regulation that promote the acquisition of beneficial postural and hygiene habits.

Keywords

• gimnasia
• danza
• edad escolar
• salud
• columna vertebral
• gymnastics
• dance
• school age
• health
• spine