Abstract
Ninety-seven amateur cricketers of age,15-35 years (Control Injured, n=48; Aqua
Rehab Group n=49) with confirmed acute or chronic ankle sprain, selected from
four different cities of the Punjab, Pakistan was evaluated through Star Excursion
Balance Test (SEBT), Single Leg Balance test (SLB) and subject to a set of
progressively increasing exercises in water known as Aqua exercises. Another
group of same level cricketers (n=40) was managed parallel for comparisons. The
Control Injured and Aqua Rehab Group was left with 40 subjects each because
during the course of Aqua exercise eight and nine subjects left the study due to
their personal reasons. Comparisons of pre and post exercise (Control Injured
Group) values showed significant increase (p<0.01) in Lateral direction reach and
Posterior Medial direction (p<0.05) while the rest of the six directions showed
non-significant results. Aqua Rehab Group showed an overall improvement of 4%
and 6.3% with an increase (cm) of 2.7 and 4.1 for the non-injured and injured leg
respectively. However, the range of improvement in (%) for all eight directions
(Anterior, Anterolateral, Lateral, Posterolateral, Posterior, Posteromedial, Medial,
Anteromedial) lies between 11.6-14.2 and 11.3-14.1 for the non-injured and
injured leg respectively. Similarly, the difference between pre and post exercise
difference of two positions of non-injured leg and injured leg (closed and open
eyes) in seconds were 2.8, 1.7 and 6.8, 6.6 respectively. However, the
improvement (%) of two directions (closed and open eyes) of Aqua Rehab Group
was 8.8 and 4.8 for non-injured and 39.9 and 25.8 for injured group respectively. It
was evaluated through Single Leg Balance Test and analyzed by paired sample ttest found highly significant (p<0.001). The results indicated that aqua exercises
improved isometric and isotonic muscular strength, proprioception and stability
that ultimately helped to recover, regaining strength and reinstall proprioception.
After completing the Aqua Rehab plan the subjects were followed for four months Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan – Vol. No. 56, No. 2 July – December, 2019
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to check the recurrence that was found 8% and 5% for Control Injured Group and
Aqua Rehab Group respectively.
Sajjad Ali Gill, Tanver Akhtar, Tahir Nazeer, Hira Shahid. (2019) Rehabilitation of Acute and Chronic Ankle Sprain of Male Cricketers Through Aqua Exercise, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 56, Issue 2.
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