Efficiency of training using a balancing platform in rehabilitation in patients with miogenic cervicalgia after transferred coronavirus disease

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic over the past 3 years has led to an increase in inactivity in people of working age, accompanied by hypotension of the axial skeletal muscles. It is known that myogenic cervicalgia is one of the most common manifestations of postcocious syndrome, namely, 73% of patients after coronavirus infection had manifestations of myogenic cervicalgia. But the methods of physical therapy of this group of patients were not sufficient. From here the need for effective and affordable physical therapy programs for all categories of people. Development and improvement of theoretical bases of knowledge and application of new and improvement of the most progressive methods of prevention and rehabilitation of persons with myogenic cervicalgia, in particular after COVID-19 coronavirus infection, is an important task at the present stage of rehabilitation in Ukraine. The use of free-weight balancing platform training to promote proprioception, coordination, and muscle tone should be effective in rehabilitating patients with coronavirus disease. The purpose of the study: to improve the motor coordination of patients after coronavirus infection with myogenic cervicalgia through the combined use of therapeutic gymnastics and exercises on a balancing platform. Material and methods: the study was conducted for 2 months in 18 patients (10 - women and 8 men) aged 30 to 45 years. Relevant patients were divided into two groups: experimental (EG) and control (CG) for ten people in each group. The method of performing therapeutic gymnastics exercises on a balancing platform with free weight, ie with the use of dumbbells and fitness rubber bands, was used. Conclusions: the effectiveness of the developed program of physical therapy and the feasibility of using the balancing platform “Stein Massage Balance Platform” in the program of physical therapy of persons after coronavirus infection were proved.