A Gender Based Comparative Study to Assess the Flexibility through SFMA (Top Tier Movements) in Young Adults

The Structural Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) is used to assess movement patterns in order to identify relevant musculoskeletal dysfunction in a clinical population. SFMA is a movement based assessment tool designed for clinicians to diagnose the movement restrictions. SFMA is a whole body movement classification system that identifies non optimal movement performance requiring further assessment. Need of the Study: The study aims to compare the flexibility between males and females through SFMA. Aim of The Study: it is to compare the flexibility in young adults by using top tier movements of SFMA. Objectives and Methodology: This study compares the flexibility between males and females. 50 healthy individuals (25 females and 25 females) who fulfilled the inclusion criteria of age group between 19 to 25years were selected. The individuals were asked to perform the top tier movements in SFMA. Based on their performance it was noted as 1 to 4.As 1 indicates the highest flexibility, 4 indicates least flexibility. This study was a onetime assessment it was assessed based on the movement performed by an individual. Results: The data was analyzed for normal distribution by using Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests used for normality. Mann Whitney U test were used to compare the flexibility. The P value is 0.001 0f normality test, hence the data was not normally distributed. A Mann whitney U test was performed in which P value was 0.140, which indicates that there was no statistically significant difference in flexibility between males and females. Conclusion: The present study concludes that there was no significant difference in flexibility between males and females