TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Effects of Aqua Rehabilitation Exercise on Body Shape and
Visual Analogue Scale in Elderly Women
AU - Do-Jin, Kim AU - Jong-Hyuck, Kim 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 13
SP  - 3376
EP  - 3380
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2017.3376.3380
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.3376.3380
KW  - Aqua rehabilitation exercise
KW  -body shape
KW  -visual analogue scale
KW  -shoulder angle
KW  -pelvis angle
KW  -leg length
KW  -balance of right and left
AB  - The physical effects of underwater exercise includes muscle relaxation, decrease of muscular spasm
and pain, increase of joint moving range and muscular strength and improvement of stability and balance of
body. This study aimed to investigate the changes in body shape and visual analogue scale of elderly women
after 12 weeks of aqua rehabilitation exercise. The research subjects were elderly in 70s living in Korea who do
not exercise regularly do not take dietary supplement and wish to attend 12 weeks of aqua rehabilitation exercise
program. The aqua rehabilitation exercise was performed for a total of 48 sessions 4 times a week for 12 weeks
each of 60 min. Walking, stretching, shaking, jumping, jogging were performed in order focusing on the spine
in which low pressure was started and intensity was increased to optimum pressure. Body shape changes
(Bodystyle S-8.0: Korea) was used for body shapein which they were measured as shoulder, pelvis, leg length,
balance of right and left. VAS (Visual Analogue Scale) was used for level of pain in which they were measured
as subjective pain score. PASW 18.0 statistical program was used on the pre-test and post-test data to identify
the effect of 12 week treatment. Descriptive statistics was suggested for each measurement period and two way
2-way repeated ANOVA was applied to find the interaction of the treatment effect. The significance level was
set to be 0.05. First, shoulder angle showed significant interaction effect between EG and CG with p<0.05. Pelvis
angle showed significant interaction effect between EG and CG with p<0.05 leg length showed significant
interaction effect between EG and CG with p<0.05. Balance of right and left showed significant interaction effect
between EG and CG with p<0.05. Second, VAS showed significant interaction effect between EG and CG with
p<0.001. Aquatic exercises make people to work out with the resistance in water and ultimately strengthen the
muscular strength of muscles around the joints. Furthermore, the underwater exercise program will help the
participants to effectively use the resistance underwater and actively bring on euphoria to decrease pain.
ER  -