EFFECT OF PROPRIOCEPTIVE NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION ON LOWER BACK FLEXIBIITY OF MALE SCHOOL STUDENTS OF GWALIOR
Abstract
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) is a technique of combining passive stretching and isometric stretching. The study was conducted to see the effect of PNF on flexibility of male school students. It was hypothesized that there will be significant increase of flexibility in male schools students. The samples for the study had been randomly selected, 60 male school students studying in KV NO :1, Gwalior were selected as subjects for the study and were divide into two groups (30 control group, 30 treatment group). To measure the lower back flexibility flexomeasure (sit and reach test) was used. The statistical technique used to analyse the score was ANCOVA, and it could be successfully determined from the result that there was a significant effect of PNF on flexibility of male school students i.e. There was a significant increase in the flexibility of male school students.
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