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Sağlıklı Kadınlarda Menstrüel Siklus Boyunca Gövde Kas Enduransı, Esneklik ve Uyku Probleminin İncelenmesi
Investigation of Trunk Muscle Endurance, Flexibility and Sleep Problems Across the Menstrual Cycle in Healthy Women
Şeyda TOPRAK ÇELENAYa, Ayşenur KARAKUŞb, Sevilay Seda BAŞa, Saliha Beste BÜLBÜLc, Nergiz SOYHANd
aAnkara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Fizyoterapi ve Rehabilitasyon Bölümü, Ankara, TÜRKİYE
bAnkara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Fizyoterapi ve Rehabilitasyon ABD, Ankara, TÜRKİYE
cÖzel Artı Disleksi Özel Eğitim ve Rehabilitasyon Merkezi, Ankara, TÜRKİYE
dÖzel Yeliz ile Pilates Merkezi, Ankara, TÜRKİYE
Turkiye Klinikleri J Health Sci. 2020;5(3):547-54
doi: 10.5336/healthsci.2019-72814
Article Language: TR
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 Amaç: Sağlıklı kadınlarda menstrüel siklusun farklı fazları boyunca gövde kas enduransı, esneklik ve uyku problemini incelenmekti. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Sağlıklı 23 kadın (yaş: 23,26±4,51 yıl, beden kitle indeksi (BKİ): 20,84±2,46 kg/m2 ) birey çalışmaya dâhil edildi. Ağrı şiddeti vizüel analog skala (VAS) ile fiziksel aktivite düzeyleri Uluslararası Fiziksel Aktivite Anketi-7 ile gövde kas enduransları McGill'in gövde kas endurans testleri ile esneklikleri otur-uzan testi ile uyku problemleri ise VAS ile menstrüel siklusun farklı fazlarında değerlendirildi. Bulgular: Gövde fleksör kas enduransı, menstrüasyonda foliküler (p=0,003) ve luteal fazın ortasına (p=0,023) göre daha az olduğu, gövde sağ lateral fleksör kas enduransı menstrüasyonda foliküler (p=0,033) ve luteal fazın ortasına (p=0,004) göre daha az iken gövde sol lateral fleksör kas enduransının ise menstrüasyonda luteal fazın ortasına göre daha az olduğu bulundu (p=0,011). Esnekliğin menstrüasyonda foliküler fazın ortasına göre daha az olduğu görüldü (p=0,015). Siklusun fazları boyunca uyku problemleri ve gövde ekstansör kas enduransı ile ilgili herhangi bir değişiklik saptanmadı (p>0,05). Sonuç: Sağlıklı kadınlarda menstrüasyonda foliküler ve luteal faza göre gövde kas enduransının değiştiği ve esnekliklerinin daha az olduğu görüldü. Siklus boyunca uyku problemleri benzerdi. Menstrüasyonda gövde kas enduransı ve esneklik azalmasının farkında olmak yaralanmaları önleyebilir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Menstrüel siklus; uyku; karın kasları; kadın
ABSTRACT
 bjective: To investigate trunk muscle endurance, flexibility and sleep problems across different phases of menstrual cycle in healthy women. Material and Methods: Twenty-three healthy women (age: 23.26±4.51 years, body mass index: 20.84±2.46 kg/m2 ) were included in the study. Pain intensity with Visual Analog Scale (VAS), physical activity levels with International Physical Activity Questionnaire-7, trunk muscle endurance with McGill's trunk muscle endurance tests, flexibility with sit and reach test, and sleep problems with VAS were assessed across the different phases of menstrual cycle. Results: It was found that trunk flexor muscle endurance was lower in the menstruation than the midfollicular (p=0.003) and the midluteal phase (p=0.023), the trunk right lateral flexor muscle endurance was lower in the menstruation than the midfollicular (p=0.033) and the midluteal phase (p=0.004); while, the trunk left lateral flexor muscle endurance was lower in the menstruation than the midluteal phase (p=0.011). It was seen that the flexibility was lower in the menstruation than the midfollicular phase (p=0.015). There were no changes related to the sleep problems and trunk muscle extensor endurance across the cycle phases (p>0.05). Conclusion: It was seen that trunk muscle endurance changed and flexibility were lower in the menstruation than the follicular and luteal phases in healthy women. The sleep problems were similar across the cycle. Being awareness of trunk muscle endurance and flexibility decrease during the menstruation can prevent injuries.

Keywords: Menstrual cycle; sleep; abdominal muscles; woman
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Hereby "Terms of Use" come into force when announced in the "SITE" by "Turkiye Klinikleri". The users are regarded to agree to hereby contract terms by using the "SITE". "Turkiye Klinikleri" may change the contract terms and the changes will be come into force by specifying the version number and the date of change on time it is published in the "SITE".

 

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Privacy Policy

We recommend you to read the terms of use below before you visit our website. In case you agree these terms, following our rules will be to your favor. Please read our Terms of Use thoroughly.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com website belongs to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. and is designed in order to inform physicians in the field of health

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. will be pleased to hear your comments about our terms of use. Please share the subjects you think may enrich our website or if there is any problem regarding our website.

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