Peculiarities of spirometric indicators in volleyball players and girls engaged in academic singing

Abstract

Annotation. The basis for the relevance of this study is the widespread prevalence of lung diseases and the necessity to apply timely rehabilitation measures. According to scientists, singing can be one of the alternative methods of physical rehabilitation. The purpose of the study was to compare external breathing indicators of girls who are engaged in academic singing, volleyball players of a high level of skill and female students who do not sing and do not play sports. An examination of 3 groups of subjects was conducted, which included 57 female persons aged 15-25. The first group included 19 girls who were engaged in academic singing, they were students of National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya and students of Vinnytsya Vocational College of Arts. The second group includes 18 volleyball players of the Super League of Ukraine “Dobrodiy-Med University–ShVSM” team, who have been playing volleyball for at least 3 years and have reached a high level of skill. The third group included 22 female students who did not play sports, had no chronic diseases and health complaints, they formed the control group. External breathing parameters were determined on a spirograph “Medgraphics Pulmonary Function System 1070 series” according to the methodology of the American Pulmonology Association and the European Respiratory Society. It was determined that the absolute values of the peak exhale flow, the reserve volume, the maximum free ventilation in volleyball players was significantly higher than in the group control, and the vital capacity of the lungs of volleyball players was significantly higher than the control group and the group of girls engaged in academic singing. Group of vocalists have the tendency to higher values of the average arithmetical point of spirographic indicators compared to the girls of the researched control group. The volleyball players and singers, together with the control, had significantly higher percentages of detections relative to the appropriate values depending on the spirographic indicators, such as the Tiffeneau-Pinelli index, the exhalation capacity, the volume of the forced exhalation during the first second. There are no significant differences in the value of spirographic indicators between volleyball players and female vocalists. The development of a physical rehabilitation program with elements of academic singing for respiratory diseases will be promising for further research.