Temporary Correction of Transverse Plane Pelvic Rotation via a Three Minute Exercise Program

Abstract

A sample of 25 golfers, 12 professionals and 13 amateurs, ages 23 to 63 years, were measured for transverse plane pelvic rotation using light electrodes positioned bilaterally on the iliac crests. Transverse plane pelvic rotation was present in all of the golfers measured. All subjects were measured from a shoulder width stance, two inches wider and two inches narrower than shoulder width in a standing, erect posture and a golf set-up posture without a club. Transverse plane pelvic rotation in the 25 subjects ranged from 1 inch to 4 inches as recorded by stance correction with an average of 2.25 inches of rotation at a shoulder width stance. A dowel pole bar with light electrodes fixed to the bar was attached to the transverse pelvic plane 3 inches below the iliac crest for the purpose of validation of a measurement instrument in the field. The pelvic rotation was temporarily corrected through a simple three minute exercise program

Nineteen of the 25 subjects were seen in follow-up in the field where the dowel bar was used and they had each returned to their measured baseline pelvic rotation. Again, their measured pelvic rotation was corrected via a simple three minute exercise program The authors discuss the use of the exercise program for both golf coaching and research, and also present the validation of a simple instrument that could be used in the field to measure transverse pelvic plane rotation