INTRODUCTION
In recent years, core strength has become widely recognized as being important to an athletes’ performance in most sports. We have even realized that an increase in core strength has improved movement and prevented people from falling down, which is important in the health care environment. Despite all of the knowledge on this subject, there still lacks evidence about which specific exercise is most
effective. The need to activate the core muscles was recognize and began from the second half of the 1980s. Bergmark
1)classified Local muscles to work in the stability of spine and classified Global muscles to work to be involved in the general body movement. His results showed that the movement of the transverse abdominis, which is one of the Local muscles, contracts first before movement of extremities in healthy people, but starts late or does not work with on people who
The influence that the small angle tilt exercise
in the sitting position gives to the Local muscle activation
1 Satoshi MIYASHITA, Ph.D 1 Takeo HASHIGUCHI, Ph.D
2 Haro OGAWA 3 Hideki KATO 4 Tomoya MIYASHITA
5 Masanori SUZUKI 1 Katsuhiro MANABE, MS 1 Soichiro IWANUMA, Ph.D
1
Teikyo University of Science.
2San Francisco Giants
3Miyota Central Memorial Hospital
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