Comparison of muscule imbalance in students 3rd year at cpu

The goal of the thesis was to identify and then compare the incidence of muscle imbalance at 3rd grade students in the academic years 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 at EF CPU in Nitra. The object of our monitoring were 78 students in decimal age from 20.21 to 27.58 years. We analyze the overall incidence of muscle imbalance in the two academic years, the frequency of shortened muscles, weakened muscle and movement stereotypies disorder. At the same time we compare identical characteristics among all female students and among male students as well. We examined the muscle imbalance according to method of Janda (1982) modified by Thurzová (1992) for the purpose of physical education. Based on the measurements, we discovered a high occurrence of overall muscle imbalance at every tested subject in both academic periods. We noticed that the occurrence of shortening in shortened muscles was the highest in the first period in m. rectus femoris and in 78.4 % of subjects and next period at m. quadratus lumborum in 82.4 % of subjects. The frequency of muscle weakened was the highest in both periods the extensors of hip joint in 83 % of subjects first period, 85.3 % of subjects of the second period. When movement stereotypies we observed a high incidence of breaches of movement stereotypies in extension in hip joint in both academic years and 83% (2012/2013) and 82.4 % (2013/2014) subjects. Based on the identified results, we can deduce that not only in individuals that lead hypokinetic way of life but also for students who are regularly engaged locomotor activity but no emphasis on thorough compensation tends to develop muscle imbalances.