Abstract
Background: Fast cricket bowlers have a high risk of shoulder injuries. As fast bowling in cricket involves an early run-up, numerous rotations and circumduction of a straight arm about the glenohumeral joint to impel a ball at a batsman. Which may be caused by factors like Shoulder distraction forces, abnormal postural adaptivity, improper bowling techniques, and imbalanced physical demands?
Objectives: To assess the shoulder functional disability, shoulder girdle muscles strength and arm rotation speed using SPADI, sphygmomanometer and Tachometer respectively.
Methodology: 70 fast bowlers were included according to inclusion & exclusion criteria and consent was obtained. The functional evaluation of shoulder was done by Shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI), strength of shoulder girdle muscles of internal rotators, external rotator and scapular retractor was assessed using sphygmomanometer and the arm rotation speed was measured by tachometer.
Results: Mean value of SPADI score was (69.72±12.869) which showed close to the worst pain on disability index. The assessment for strength of shoulder girdle muscles showed mean value of internal rotators was (103.85±8.052); for external rotator was (104±11.869) and for scapular retractors was (88±8.823). The mean value for arm rotation speed using tachometer was (199.4+13.608).
Conclusion: Study concludes that reduced strength of shoulder girdle muscle, poor the performance of fast cricket bowlers.
Keywords: Fast cricket bowlers, SPADI, Sphygmomanometer, Tachometer.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Pranali Pradeep Desai
Department of Physiotherapy, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune, India
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i3.228
