Acute Cardiovascular Response of Conventional and Swiss Ball Abdominal Stabilization Exercises in Normal Individuals-A Comparative Study

Abdominal muscle stabilization is novel technique and benefits of abdominal muscle stabilization become more frequently accepted and employed in therapeutic setting to maintain proper posture and prevention of abnormal posture in normal and affected population. Since abdominal muscle stabilization is given to both normal and affected population, it is better to understand the physiological changes occurring in cardiopulmonary and cardiovascular system. This study was conducted to find out the acute cardiovascular response of conventional & swiss ball abdominal stabilization exercises in normal individuals.

In present study, 100 subjects who were college students selected by simple random sampling method and screened as per inclusion criteria. The resting level systolic, diastolic blood pressure and heart rate were recorded. Then subject performed firm surface abdominal stabilization exercises for period of 3 minutes and post exercise values of systolic diastolic blood pressure and heart rate were recorded. It was followed by a 10 minutes rest period and then abdominal stabilization exercise was performed on Swiss ball, the pre & post exercise cardiovascular parameters were recorded. The values were tabulated on master chart and subjected to statistical analysis.

The current study after analyzing statistically strongly emphasizes that the Swiss ball abdominal stabilization exercise has significant effect on acute cardiovascular response than compared to the firm surface abdominal stabilization exercise of healthy individual and it also accepts the alternate hypothesis.