Biomechanical assessment of dynamic balance: Specificity of different balance tests

Ringhof, Steffen; Stein, Thorsten

doi:10.1016/j.humov.2018.02.004

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“…On the basis of previous research [49,50], it is hypothesized that elite sports athletes will differ in postural balance from football players and also from the control group of nonathletes. Overall, athletes and football players should demonstrate better balance skills than the control sample [51,52]. Consistent with previous studies, we also assume that postural balance is related to conscientiousness as a personality trait [11] and sensory sensitivity as a temperament trait [12].…”

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A comparison of the balance skills, personality, and temperament of elite sports athletes and football players

Wojciechowska–Maszkowska¹,

Borzucka²,

Rogowska³

2020

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Background: Although balance skills and personality have been explored in the field of sports science, little is known about the relationship between the two factors. This study aims to investigate the association of postural balance with traits of personality and temperament. The differences between elite athletes, football players, and the control sample will also be examined.Methods: There were 73 participants in the cross-sectional study, aged between 16 and 30 years (M = 21.29, SD = 2.47), including 59% men. Three samples of participants consisted of elite athletes (AE, n = 17, 23.29%) from the Polish National Team; football players (FP, n = 32, 43.84%); and the control sample (CS, n = 24, 32.88%). Postural control was assessed on a force platform (Type 9286AA, Kistler Instrumente AG, Winterthur, Switzerland) with a sampling frequency of 100 Hz. The center of pressure (COP) parameter was measured for 20 s in both conditions with eyes open, and eyes closed, in both directions, anterior‒posterior (AP) and medial‒lateral (ML). The COP parameters include standard deviation (SD), mean range (RA), mean velocity (MV), and entropy (SE). The NEO-FFI questionnaire was used to assess the Big Five personality traits, whereas the FCB-TI was used to assess temperament.Results: One-way ANOVA revealed that the EA and CS groups were more stable in the ML direction than the FP group. In the AP direction, the athletes from the EA group were more stable than the CS group. Neither personality nor temperament differentiated the three groups of participants, apart from agreeableness, which was significantly lower in both the EA and FP groups. Openness to experience is positively associated with COP parameters, as was shown by the regression analysis. All together, COP parameters can explain for about 40% of openness variability.Conclusions: The results of this study showed that EA and CS have better stability than footballers in both the ML and AP directions. Openness seems to be related to postural balance skills.

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A comparison of the balance skills, personality, and temperament of elite sports athletes and football players

Wojciechowska–Maszkowska¹,

Borzucka²,

Rogowska³

2020

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“…Gyroscopes collect angular velocity data, and can be used to compute changes in COG angular velocity and angular position. Larger values of COG angular velocity and position indicate reduced balance performance [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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Development of a Smartphone-Based Balance Assessment System for Subjects with Stroke

Hou¹,

Chiu²,

Chiang

et al. 2019

Sensors

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Stroke is a cerebral artery disease that negatively affects activities of daily living (ADLs) and quality of life (QoL). Smartphones have demonstrated strong potential in assessing balance performance. However, such smartphone-based tools have thus far not been applied to stroke survivors. The purpose of this study was to develop a smartphone-based balance assessment system for subjects who have experienced strokes and evaluate the system feasibility. The smartphone-based balance assessment application was developed with Android Studio, and reliability and validity tests were conducted. The smartphone was used to record data using a built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, and increased changes represented greater instability. Six postures were tested for 30 s each. Ten healthy adults were recruited in the reliability test, and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to analyze the within-day and between-day reliabilities. Eight subjects with chronic stroke and eight healthy adults were recruited for the validity test, in which balance performance was compared to represent the application validity. The ICC values of the reliability tests were at least 0.76 (p = 0.00). The acceleration data exhibited no difference between individuals who have experienced stroke and healthy subjects; however, all six postures were found to differ significantly between the two groups in the gyroscope data. The study demonstrates that the smartphone application provides a convenient, reliable, and valid tool for the balance assessments of subjects who have experienced chronic stroke.

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“…The dynamic balance characteristic, as examined in our study, is an important aspect to improve sporting performance and carry out the necessary abilities in sporting activities (Ringhof andStein, 2018, Celenk et al, 2018). In soccer, which is a sport that requires static, semi-dynamic and dynamic balance along with technical abilities (Dunsky et al, 2017), improvements in the non-dominant leg, which is used as the balance leg, can increase the comfort of ball-using abilities and let the athlete carry out the required ability more effectively.…”

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The Effects of Natural Grass Turf on Some Motoric Characteristics of Young Soccer Players

Çağlayan

2018

JETS

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The aim of this study is to examine the effect of soccer training on natural turfs on strength, speed, power and balance characteristics in prepubertal children. Twenty-two male athletes chosen from the 12-13 age group who play soccer in the youth team of an amateur soccer club from Istanbul, Turkey volunteered to participate in our study. In the study, 30 m sprint, Y-balance, standing long jump and vertical jump tests were done as pre-and post-tests. The same training program was assigned to the players, who were separated into two groups. One group was trained on synthetic grass turf (SG) while the other group was trained on natural grass turf (NG) for eight weeks. As a result of the statistical analyses, significant improvements were observed in all parameters between pre-and post-test measurements of both SG and NG groups (p<0.05). When the developmental differences of the groups were examined, statistical improvement was found in the standing long jump parameter in favor of the group that trained on Natural Grass turf (p=0.037). In conclusion, depending on the characteristics of the soccer game, enhancements were observed on both surfaces. However, the challenge effect of natural grass turf was more effective than that of synthetic grass turf on leg strength improvement. It is considered that as a result of continuing their soccer trainings on natural grass turfs, young players can improve their performance and can avoid possible injuries.

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Biomechanical assessment of dynamic balance: Specificity of different balance tests

Cited by 87 publications

References 35 publications

A comparison of the balance skills, personality, and temperament of elite sports athletes and football players

A comparison of the balance skills, personality, and temperament of elite sports athletes and football players

Development of a Smartphone-Based Balance Assessment System for Subjects with Stroke

The Effects of Natural Grass Turf on Some Motoric Characteristics of Young Soccer Players

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