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Miñana-signes
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The conditioning of the trunk muscles and back health in Physical Education
2021
Background. The search for scientific arguments for the inclusion of back health as a fundamental aspect in the contents of physical conditioning for health in Physical Education (PE) in schools has led us to search for the relationship between the resistance of trunk musculature and non-specific low back pain in 1st year compulsory secondary education (CSE) students. Methods. Three tests were used: the front bridge (FB) test, the dominant side bridge (SB) test, and the modified Biering-Sorensen test (BS). The Nordic questionnaire was used to assess back health.Results. The prevalence of low back pain in boys was 58.3% (n = 42), while in girls it was 52.7% (n = 39) with no statistically sig…
Education for Health Back at School Age: The Role of Physical Education
2015
Traditionally, back problems have been addressed from the biomedical area. For a long time the "radiologic-anatomy model" has been considered unusable because they have failed to respond to knowledge about the source of pain or therapeutic approaches used have solved the reduced chronic pain or disability [1]. In this way, it was like the biomedical reductionist approach was replaced by the "biopsychosocial model" [1] which proposes that psychological and social factors along with biological variables in understanding a person's disease are included.