Maturity offset affects standing postural control in youth male soccer players

Zago, Matteo; Moorhead, Alex P.; Bertozzi, Filippo; Sforza, Chiarella; Tarabini, Marco; Galli, Manuela

doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.109523

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“…(k) soccer (Davlin, 2004;Bressel et al, 2007;Gerbino et al, 2007;Matsuda et al, 2008;Thorpe and Ebersole, 2008;Ben Moussa et al, 2012;Pau et al, 2015Pau et al, , 2018Edis et al, 2016Edis et al, , 2017Ozmen, 2016;Thalassinos et al, 2018;Jadczak et al, 2019a,b;Liang et al, 2019;Halabchi et al, 2020;Snyder and Cinelli, 2020;Zago et al, 2020;Glass and Ross, 2021;Śliwowski et al, 2021;González-Fernández et al, 2022;Scinicarelli et al, 2022); (l) tennis (Caballero et al, 2021;Glass and Ross, 2021;Kozinc and Šarabon, 2021); (m) volleyball (Agostini et al, 2013;Borzucka et al, 2020a,b;Makaracı et al, 2021); (n) judo (Paillard et al, 2002(Paillard et al, , 2007bPerrin et al, 2002); (o) alpine skiing (Noé and Paillard, 2005;Kiers et al, 2022), cross country skiing (Glass and Ross, 2021), and snowboarding (Platzer et al, 2009a,b); (p) surfing (Chapman et al, 2008;Paillard et al, 2011), canoeing and kayaking (Stambolieva et al, 2012), and paddle boarding (Schram et al, 2016); (r) swimming (Davlin, 2004;Matsuda et al, 2008); (s) others, such as track and field…”

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Sport-specific training induced adaptations in postural control and their relationship with athletic performance

Zemková

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2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Effects of various exercise programs on postural balance control in athletes and their underlying physiological mechanisms have been extensively investigated. However, little is known regarding how challenging sport-specific conditions contribute to the improvement of body balance and to what extent these changes may be explained by sensorimotor and/or neuromuscular function adaptations. Analysis of the literature could provide useful information on the interpretation of changes in postural sway variables in response to long-term sport-specific training and their association with performance measures. Therefore, the aim of this scoping review was (1) to analyze the literature investigating postural control adaptations induced by sport-specific training and their relationship with measures of athletic performance, and (2) to identify gaps in the existing research and to propose suggestions for future studies. A literature search conducted with Scopus, Web of Science, MEDLINE and Cochrane Library was completed by Elsevier, SpringerLink and Google Scholar with no date restrictions. Overall, 126 articles were eligible for inclusion. However, the association between variables of postural balance control and measures of sport-specific performance was investigated in only 14 of the articles. A relationship between static and/or dynamic balance and criterion measures of athletic performance was revealed in shooting, archery, golf, baseball, ice-hockey, tennis, and snowboarding. This may be ascribed to improved ability of athletes to perform postural adjustments in highly balanced task demands. However, the extent to which sport-specific exercises contribute to their superior postural stability is unknown. Although there is a good deal of evidence supporting neurophysiological adaptations in postural balance control induced by body conditioning exercises, little effort has been made to explain balance adaptations induced by sport-specific exercises and their effects on athletic performance. While an enhancement in athletic performance is often attributed to an improvement of neuromuscular functions induced by sport-specific balance exercises, it can be equally well ascribed to their improvement by general body conditioning exercises. Therefore, the relevant experiments have yet to be conducted to investigate the relative contributions of each of these exercises to improving athletic performance.

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Sport-specific training induced adaptations in postural control and their relationship with athletic performance

Zemková

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2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…The equation with age and height was selected for evaluation as it is increasingly used [26][27][28][29][30][31]. Standard errors for the original [1] and modified [2] equations were, respectively, 0.592 and 0.542 year.…”

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“…Predicted maturity offset is used most often to classify youth as pre-, at-/circa-and post-PHV, although mean CAs, heights and weights show, on average, a clear gradient across the respective maturity groups. Many studies simply compare the three groups with analysis of variance without controlling for the variation in CA and body size among groups [31,35,36,40,70]. It is also unclear as to how CA-related variation in predicted offset or ages at PHV was addressed in studies applying the prediction equations in short-term longitudinal studies [71][72][73].…”

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Observed and predicted ages at peak height velocity in soccer players

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The purpose of the study was to evaluate predicted maturity offset (time before age at PHV) and age at PHV (chronological age [CA] minus maturity offset) in a longitudinal sample of 58 under-13 club level soccer players in central Portugal for whom ages at PHV were estimated with the SITAR model. Two maturity offset prediction equations were applied: the original equation which requires CA sitting height, estimated leg length, height and weight, and a modified equation which requires CA and height. Predicted maturity offset increased, on average, with CA at prediction throughout the age range considered, while variation in predicted maturity offset and ages at PHV within CA groups was considerably reduced compared to variation in observed ages at offset and at PHV. Predicted maturity offset and ages at PHV were consistently later than observed maturity offset and age at PHV among early maturing players, and earlier than observed in late maturing players. Both predicted offset and ages at PHV with the two equations were, on average, later than observed among players maturing on time. Intra-individual variation in predicted ages at PHV with each equation was considerable. The results for soccer players were consistent with similar studies in the general population and two recent longitudinal studies of soccer players. The results question the utility of predicted maturity offset and age at PHV as valid indicators of maturity timing and status.

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“…In a study testing the balance of youth players, later maturers appear to have an advantage in static and dynamic postural control due to the adolescent awkwardness that may cause temporary balance deficits (John et al, 2019). Despite these findings, opposing evidence has been reported in youth players, suggesting that stabilometric parameters improved with age until zero maturity offset (Zago et al, 2020). In other dimensions of performance, such as motor coordination, no meaningful impact appears to be conferred due to maturation (Vandendriessche et al, 2012).…”

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Exploring Relationships Between Anthropometry, Body Composition, Maturation, and Selection for Competition: A Study in Youth Soccer Players

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PurposeThe purpose of this study was to analyze variations of selection for competition between late and early mature players and test the relationships between anthropometry, body composition, maturation, and selection for competition.MethodsSeventy-nine youth soccer players from under-11 to under-14 participated in this study, over 6 months. Body composition and maturity offset were estimated based on anthropometric data collected. Participants were also monitored for their number of matches as starters and time of play accrued in minutes.ResultsMinutes played had large correlation coefficients with maturity offset (r = 0.58), and leg length and sitting height interaction (r = 0.56). Multiple linear regression explained 35% of the variation in minutes played (p < 0.001, R2 = 0.41, R2adjusted = 0.35, RMSE = 334.8), but only 12% of the variation in matches as starter (p = 0.04, R2 = 0.21, R2adjusted = 0.12, RMSE = 5.47) between above and below the median of the maturity offset was accounted for, respectively.ConclusionsAlthough maturation may play a role in the minutes of play accrued and matches as starters in young, it is not necessarily determining. A significant amount of the variation in the minutes of play accrued of players can be accounted for when considering body composition and anthropometric data.

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Maturity offset affects standing postural control in youth male soccer players

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

Sport-specific training induced adaptations in postural control and their relationship with athletic performance

Sport-specific training induced adaptations in postural control and their relationship with athletic performance

Observed and predicted ages at peak height velocity in soccer players

Exploring Relationships Between Anthropometry, Body Composition, Maturation, and Selection for Competition: A Study in Youth Soccer Players

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