The purpose of present study was to compare the tibialis anterior (TA), rectus femoris (RF), and erector spinae (ES) muscle activities at variety chair height during sit-to-stand (STS) on normal weight and obese sub-jects. Also, we compared the muscle activity difference between the normal weight and obese subjects. The study included 26 subjects (nor-mal weight 13 and obese 13). Each subject performed STS at three chair heights (40 cm, 50 cm, 60 cm) and TA, RF, and ES muscle activities measured. According to the results of the measurement, muscle activa-tion of TA showed significantly higher than RF and ES muscle activation during STS at all chair heights on obese subjects. The muscle activation of TA showed significantly higher than RF muscle activation during STS at all chair heights on normal weight subjects. The muscle activation of RF and ES showed significantly higher in normal weight subjects than obese subjects at 40 cm and 50 cm of chair heights. However, the TA muscle activation showed no significant difference between normal weight subjects and obese subjects. This study’s results suggested that obese subjects should practice the use of RF and ES muscles in a low-height chair during STS.
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Abstract INTRODUCTION MATERIALS AND METHODS Participants Instrumentation Experimental procedure Statistical analysis RESULTS General characteristics of the participants The comparison of muscle activation according to chair height during STS on normal weight and obese subjects The comparison of muscle activation between normal weight and obese subjects during STS DISCUSSION CONFLICT OF INTEREST ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES
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ObeseSit to standChair heightMuscle activity
저자
Soo-Han Kim [ Department of Physical Therapy, College of Biomedical Science, Kaya University, Gimhae, Korea ]
Sung-Kwang Ju [ Department of Physical Therapy, College of Biomedical Science, Kaya University, Gimhae, Korea ]
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