All of the 20 participants in the study group were asked to do the given 11 home exercises (balance, stretching and strengthening exercises) twice a week for 6 weeks. The exercises were progressed day by day. All of the exercises were taught in the first assessment day, after the all measurements collected. All participants were controlled every week by social media and face-to-face conversations.

Additionally, CTM was applied to the volunteers in study group for 6 weeks, 2 sessions in a week.CTM applied to lumbosacral area (basic region), lower toracal, scapular, interscapular and cervical regions, respectively.

All of the 20 participants in the exercise group were asked to do the given 11 home exercises (balance, stretching and strengthening exercises) twice a week for 6 weeks. The exercises were progressed day by day. All of the exercises were taught in the first assessment day, after the all measurements collected. All participants were controlled every week by social media and face-to-face conversations.

Connective tissue manipulation is a soft tissue manipulative technique and also a reflex therapy which is characterized by localised and specific strokes performed in where the fascia is superficial or palpable. A shear force is created between the skin-underlying fascia or dermis-hypodermis and angulatory force is applied to the collagen fibers to produce reflex and mechanical effects.

The BBS, which consists of a monitor connected multi-axis platform, objectively measures static and dynamic balance and records measurement results as degrees for three directions: medial lateral stability index, anterior-posterior stability index, and overall stability index. These indices show the fluctuations around the zero point. The mobility of the platform can be adjusted allowing the static and dynamic balance to be measured.

Postural Stability Protocol has been selected from 5 test protocols of BBS. In this protocol, the aim is to try to match the ball seen on the screen to the midpoint of the ring shaped screen by transferring the weight on the platform. Firstly, static platform were used and volunteers stand on both foot, then on right and left foot. Then, the same measurements were repeated on dynamic platform which is level 4 out of 8. Each measurement was tested in 3 repetitions. Mean of these repetitions were noted as the score of that measurement.

It is glasses-shaped measurement device which indicate the position of the head and consist of two inclinometers which are in sagittal and frontal planes.

To assess cervical proprioception, flexion and right and left lateral flexion were chosen. When they put on the CROM, we asked them to bend the head forward and we stopped them when they reached 30 degrees and asked them to feel the amount of movement and muscle tension. We repeated the procedure 3 times with eyes open and 3 times with eyes closed. Then we asked the volunteers to flex their heads three times and stop when they thought they reached 30 degrees. Average of each flexion degrees that they stopped was noted and the deviation from the target angle was calculated as score.

Then the same procedure was repeated for right and left lateral flexion.