TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Prevalence of Scoliosis in Adolescent Swimmers and the Effect of Swimming on Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
AB  - Objective: The patients are frequently referred to swimming for conservative follow-upand treatment of scoliosis. However, there are also studies reporting high scoliosisprevalence in swimmers. The aim of this study is to define the scoliosis incidence inadolescent swimmers and evaluate the effect of swimming on radiological parametersin swimmers with scoliosis.Material and Methods: The medical reports of the swimmers who have applied tosports medicine outpatient clinic in our institution for license renewal wereretrospectively reviewed. The swimmers with positive Adam’s forward bending testsdetermined during physical examination were subjected to radiological evaluation andthe whole spine was evaluated with anteroposterior and lateral orthoroentgenograms.The swimmers were demanded to continue swimming and called for follow up 1 yearlater. The swimmers with scoliosis who continued swimming and applied for follow-upone year later were evaluated radiologically.Results: Six hundred and seventy-nine swimmers were examined. Twenty eight(4.1%) swimmers, [11 male (39%), 17 female (61%); mean age 12.6 (min 10, max 17)years] with positive Adam’s bending test were further evaluated radiologically. Theseswimmers were called for follow up 1 year later. Seventeen swimmers who continuedswimming and applied for follow up were evaluated radiologically. Sagittal and coronalplan parameters of the spine were measured on the first and the second radiographs.These parameters were compared statistically. There was no statistically significantdifference among proximal thoracic, main thoracic, main lumbar curves and thoracickyphosis and lumbar lordosis degrees on the first and the follow-up radiographs of theathletes who continued swimming.Conclusions: Swimming was found to have no effect on spinal sagittal planeparameters in swimmers with scoliosis. Moreover we found that it has not provided anyimprovement or stability also in the coronal plane deformity after 1 year follow up.According to our results, it may be concluded that swimming is not effective in theconservative treatment of scoliosis.
AU  - Arslan, Aynur Sevgi
AU  - akman, yunus emre
AU  - Öztaş, Dilek
AU  - Hekim, Hanife hale
AU  - Oner, Ali
AU  - Gönen Aydın, Canan
DO  - 10.5152/tjsm.2020.176
PY  - 2020
JO  - Spor Hekimliği Dergisi
VL  - 55
IS  - 3
SN  - 1300-0551
SP  - 200
EP  - 206
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/418448
ER  -