RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CURVATURE OF SPINAL COLUMN AND BODY COMPOSITION AND VOLUME OF CHEST EXPANSION IN VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Ms. Fatemeh Karami Borzabad and Dr. C. Venkatesh

Abstract

Identifying requirements of different sport fields is considered one of the important research areas in sport sciences and physical education. Researches in this field, through identifying and analyzing effective factors in sport performance of age groups, gender and different positions, try to provide necessary information for organizing programs in the process of talent selection and training elites. The main aim was to assess relationship between curvature of spinal column and body composition and volume of chest expansion in volleyball players. Tests such as Mean, Standard Deviation, Percentage, t-ratio was used to comprise the data and to classify the kind and character, position, side, reason of damage, season, work out, position etc, deploying SPSS was used for the analysis of data and desired results were obtained.  

Keywords: Curvature, Spinal column, body composition, chest expansion and volleyball players.