effect of a corrective exercise program based on scapular stability on upper cross syndrome in wheelchair basketball athletes

Aims wheelchair basketball athletes, as a group of people with spinal cord injury, are at riskfor upper cross syndrome. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectof a corrective exercise program based on scapular stability on upper cross syndrome inwheelchair basketball athletes.materials & methods in this semi-experimental study that was conducted in 2017-2018,24 veteran and handicapped wheelchair basketball athletes who had spinal cord injury withupper cross syndrome in mashhad were selected by purposive sampling method and dividedinto control (n=12) and case (n=12) groups. a corrective exercise program based on scapularstability were administered to the case group for 8 weeks. camera and flexible ruler toolswere used to measure forward head, rounded shoulder and kyphosis, respectively. dataanalysis was performed by spss 23 software using independent t-test, paired t-test, one-wayanalysis of variance, and tukey’s post hoc test.findings the severity of forward head, rounded shoulder and kyphosis abnormalities wasless in class 3 than in class 1 and 2. there was a significant difference between the caseand control groups after training in all three forward head, rounded shoulder, and kyphosisabnormalities (p<0.05).conclusion the corrective exercises based on scapula stability are one of the most usefultraining methods for restoring muscle balance and preventing and correcting abnormalitiesin wheelchair basketball athletes.