A Study on the Effect of Golf Driver Head Speed and Back Muscular
Strength in TBA-G of FCST

Sun, Seung-Ho; Park, Chang-Woon; Jung, Hye-Jung; Ahn, Seung-Hun; Son, In-Chul; Lee, Young-Jun; Sun, Seung-Ho; Park, Chang-Woon; Jung, Hye-Jung; Ahn, Seung-Hun; Son, In-Chul; Lee, Young-Jun

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

J Korean Med. 2013;34(1): 80-88.

A Study on the Effect of Golf Driver Head Speed and Back Muscular Strength in TBA-G of FCST

Seung-Ho Sun¹, Chang-Woon Park², Hye-Jung Jung³, Seung-Hun Ahn⁴, In-Chul Son⁴, and Young-Jun Lee⁵

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Koreanl Medicine Hospital of Sangji University
²Department of Golf, College of Art & Sports Sciences, Hoseo University
³Department of Digital Information and Statistics, Pyeongtaek University
⁴Department of Meridian and Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University
⁵the Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, College of Medicine, CHA University & Lee Young Jun Korean Medicine Clinic

Corresponding Author: Young-Jun Lee ,Tel: +82-41-552-0056, Fax: +82-41-553-7708, Email: yjleejun@hanmail.net

Received: August 13, 2012; Accepted: October 24, 2012.

ABSTRACT

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Temporomandibular joint Balance Appliance for Golf (TBA-G) of Functional Cerebrospinal Therapy (FCST) on golf driver head speed and back muscle power.
Methods: Twenty-one participants that had a golf career of 4 years or more were involved. We measured golf drive head speed and back muscular strength before and after applying TBA-G in the mouth. A paired t test or Wilcoxon singed rank test was performed to identify the difference of effect between before and after applying TBA-G, using IBM SPSS 19.0. We considered difference significant at P<0.05.
Results: Driver head speed increased significantly by 2 mph (1.99%) after applying TBA-G [from 100.52±9.82 mph (mean ± SD) to 102.52±10.43 mph, P<0.001]. Back muscular strength also increased by 7.28 kg (5.60%) [from 129.90±28.31 kg to 137.18±28.81 kg, P<0.001]. In stratification analysis, a more significant increase was found in the drive head speed and back muscular strength of groups of males with weight more than 69kg, with height more than 175cm, and with golf experience more than 7 years, compared to those of other groups.
Conclusions: The results suggest that TBA-G could improve golf drive head speed and back muscular strength.