the targeted rehabilitation program with corrective exercises on trainable mentally handicapped people with upper body disorders

Background: community-based rehabilitation is a multi-dimensional approach to improve the function and quality of life to mentally ill people. aim: this study examined the effect of rehabilitation protocol that were the spine strengthening exercises on adult mentally disabled men with upper body anomalies. materials and methods: this study was performed on 28 educable mentally disabled with the age range of 30-45. these subjects had positional hyperkyphosis angle, more than 45° and fhp more than 46°. they were randomly divided into two groups of experimental (n=16) and control (n=12). experimental group followed the three-step training protocol for two months. a spinal mouse and a digital camera were used to measure the deviation of thoracic area’s hyperkyphosis and the fhp angle respectively. the dependent and independent t-tests were applied for within and between groups’ comparisons respectively. the significance level was considered at 0.05, all analysis of study was done by spss23. results: the mean of hyperkyphosis and fhp angles in experimental group, significantly decreased (p= 0.008, 0.003), respectively. but there was no significant change in control group (p= 0.101, 0.122). the independent t-test results for both variables indicated a significant difference between control and experimental subjects after the protocol (p= 0.001). conclusion: the combined corrective exercises caused a reduction in head, neck and trunk disorders of study subjects.