Posture changes of students who attended Pilates

Abstract

Research background. Many proponents of the modern lifestyle, your attitude ignores without adequate notice. When a lot of time spent at the computer, TV, in the cars - practically stationary, irregular position of being long, tired muscles (Girskis, 2005), formed an irregular posture (Ramanauskiene, Dumciene, 2007). Research aim. To evaluate the body posture changes of students who attend Pilates training. Research methods. Tempo Contemplas 2D posture analysis software, which was used to take photos of students in sagittal plane and using a special computer program antomical points were marked (targus, sternum, abdomen, thoracic spine, lumbar spine). Posture index was calculated according to the special formula and evaluated bad or good posture. [...].