[Horse riding as a form of recreation and professional sport taking into account the spine mobility of riders - a preliminary results].

UNLABELLED: Horse riding becoming increasingly common and popular form of recreation and leisure activities. However, enforced, proper posture while riding a horse, may contribute to decrease mobility of spine and lead to occurrence back pain.

AIM: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the systematic training of horse riding on the global mobility of the spine and back pain prevalence in-training horse riders professionally and recreational.

MATERIALS AND

METHODS

The study included 70 horse riders. The subjects were divided into two groups: 1) professional horse riders (n=50; 71.43%) or 2) a group of subjects who train for recreation (n=20; 28.57%). Performed functional tests to assess the range of motion of the spine. The study used an original survey about exercise intensity and occurrence pain complaints.

RESULTS

It has been shown statistically significant difference in the measurement range of the global spine mobility between professional horse riders and recreational horse riders (p<0.007). Professional horse riders have often limited range of motion of the spine. It was also observed that every fifth (20%) professional horse rider and one in four (25%) subject which training recreational experience back pain during training and it is dependent upon the mobility of the spine (p <0.04).

CONCLUSIONS

In professional horse riders more often seen limitation of global mobility of the spine compared with subjects who training recreational while the occurrence of back pain was related in both group - in professional and recreational horse riders.