Relationship Between Sport Expertise and Postural Skills

Paillard, Thierry

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01428

Cited by 76 publications

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“…In general, our data are consistent with multiple studies [6,16,21,22,38,39] that did not reveal any strong association between the COP sway during a normal bipedal stance and sports performance level. Moreover, no relationship was found between the performance level in gymnastics and motor learning ability [18].…”

Section: Sports Performance Level and Postural Balancesupporting

confidence: 93%

Postural Stability in Athletes: The Role of Age, Sex, Performance Level, and Athlete Shoe Features

Andreeva

Melnikov

Skvortsov

et al. 2020

Sports

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The effects of different factors—such as age, sex, performance level, and athletic shoe features—on postural balance in athletes remain unclear. The main objective of our study is to identify the features of postural stability in athletes of different age, sex, performance level, and using different types of athletic shoes. This study assessed postural stability in athletes (n = 936, 6–47 years) in a normal bipedal stance with eyes open (EO) and eyes closed (EC). Postural stability was evaluated based on the center of pressure (COP), sway area (AS), and velocity (VCP) while standing on a stabiloplatform. Children (6–12 years) and teen athletes (13–17 years) showed reduced AS-EO (p < 0.01) and VCP-EO (p < 0.01) compared to control (n = 225, 7–30 years). In male and female athletes aged 18+, only VCP-EC was lower versus control. In females (13–17 and 18+), VCP-EO and EC were lower than in males (p < 0.05). Only in the Shooting group, the athletes’ performance levels had an effect on VCP-EO (p = 0.020). Long use of rigid athletic shoes with stiff ankle support was associated with reduced posture stability. Postural stability in athletes was mostly influenced by the athlete‘s age, and, to a lesser extent, by their sex, performance level, and athlete shoe features.

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Section: Sports Performance Level and Postural Balancesupporting

confidence: 93%

Postural Stability in Athletes: The Role of Age, Sex, Performance Level, and Athlete Shoe Features

Andreeva

Melnikov

Skvortsov

et al. 2020

Sports

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“…Moreover, regardless of the type of sport, no sport technique is achievable without an efficient body balance (Paillard, 2017a). For instance, running economy (Paillard, 2019) or ball control in the air on one leg in soccer (Paillard, 2017a) are influenced by the individual level of postural skills. Likewise, a positive correlation has been shown between postural stability and performance in basketball (Perrin, 1991).…”

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Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes

Sarto

Cona

Paoli

et al. 2020

PeerJ

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In sports, postural balance control has been demonstrated to be one of the limiting factors of performance and a necessary component to achieve any sport technique. Team players (TP) must process and react to multiple external stimuli while executing at the same time the skills of the game. By contrast, endurance athletes (END) must perform the same gesture repetitively without a concurrent coordination of continuous stimuli-related actions. However, END are used to facilitate their physical performance by adopting cognitive strategies while performing their sport gesture. Therefore, we aimed to investigate static and dynamic balance performance in these two types of athletes, both in single and dual-task conditions. Nineteen END and sixteen TP underwent a static and a dynamic balance assessment on a dynamometric platform and an instrumented oscillating board, respectively. Among TP static but not dynamic postural balance performance was negatively affected by dual-tasking considering the area of the confidence ellipse (p < 0.001; d = 0.52) and the sway path mean speed (p < 0.001; d = 0.93). Conversely, END unaltered static balance performance but showed an overall improvement in the dynamic one when dual-tasking occurred. The limited human processing capacity accounted the worsening of the cognitive performance in both TP (p < 0.05; d = 0.22) and END (p < 0.001; d = 0.37). Although TP are more used coping dual tasking, the better performance of END could be accounted for by the employment of the external attentive focus (i.e. counting backward aloud) that called into play a strategy close to those adopted during training and competitions. These surprising results should be considered when driving and developing new trainings for team players in dual-tasking conditions.

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“…However, the high rate of this exploration handicaps proprioceptive function in lower legs leading to its saturation 9 . Hence, sub-elite athletes become unable to compensate for more difficult postural tasks 4 . To successively cope at the highest level of sport performance, the elite volleyball players have to resort to less fatiguing and more adequate postural control strategies.…”

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Differences in static postural control between top level male volleyball players and non-athletes

Borzucka

Kręcisz

Rektor

et al. 2020

Sci Rep

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It is argued that elite athletes often demonstrate superior body balance. Despite the apparent significance of perfect balance ability in volleyball, little is known about the specific nature of postural control adjustments among first-rate volleyball competitors. This study compared postural performance and strategies in quiet stance between world vice-champions and young, healthy, physically active male subjects. The center-of-pressure (COP) signals recorded on a force plate were used to compute several measures of sway. In both axes of movement, athletes had lower COP range, but not its standard deviation and higher COP speed and frequency than controls. These findings indicate that postural regulation in athletes was more precise and less vulnerable to external disturbances which support optimal timing and precision of actions. Postural strategies in athletes standing quietly were similar to those exhibited by non-athletes performing dual tasks. It demonstrates a significant effect of sport practice on changes in postural control. In anterior–posterior axis, athletes displayed a much higher COP fractal dimension and surprisingly lower COP–COG frequency than controls. This accounts for their high capacity to use diversified postural strategies to maintain postural stability and significantly reduced the contribution of proprioception to save this function for carrying out more challenging posture-motor tasks.

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Relationship Between Sport Expertise and Postural Skills

Cited by 76 publications

References 51 publications

Postural Stability in Athletes: The Role of Age, Sex, Performance Level, and Athlete Shoe Features

Postural Stability in Athletes: The Role of Age, Sex, Performance Level, and Athlete Shoe Features

Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes

Differences in static postural control between top level male volleyball players and non-athletes

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