Six-Week Combined Vibration and Wobble Board Training on Balance and Stability in Footballers With Functional Ankle Instability

The Influence of Attentional Focus on Balance Control over Seven Days of Training

“…Participants may have adopted a patterned and rigid approach to reduce velocity and the magnitude of the variability to effectively keep the board (or their feet) level. This is an important contribution as balance boards have rapidly gained popularity to easily assess (Diekfuss et al, 2018) and train balance (Cloak, Nevill, Day, & Wyon, 2013;Söderman et al, 2000), and this is the first data documenting the dynamical movement strategies participants adopt while practicing. The adoption of a balance board should be context dependent.…”

Star Excursion Balance Test Performance Varies by Sport in Healthy Division I Collegiate Athletes

“…Previous research has supported this as performance on the SEBT has been 39 shown to estimate lower extremity injury risk, 3,26 differentiate between lower extremity 40 musculoskeletal pathologies, 1,13,24 and measure improvements in postural control after 41 training programs. 4,29 Using the SEBT to identify at-risk individuals may allow for early 42 implementation of neuromuscular re-training programs in attempt to decrease overall 43 injury risk. 44 To evaluate an individual's performance on the SEBT and associated injury risk, 45 reach distances and asymmetries are typically compared to a reference value.…”

“…As there was not a significant within-subjects 142 difference (dependent t-test) in any direction between dominant and non-dominant 143 normalized reach distance, the average across both limbs was calculated for each 144 direction and the COMP score and used for subsequent between-subject analyses of 145 differences between genders and sports. 2,4,13,18 Because not all sports were played by both genders, the effects of gender and 147 sport (independent variables) on normalized reach distance and side-to-side asymmetry 148 (dependent variables) were assessed using 2 approaches. First, normalized reach 149 distances and asymmetries were compared between sports common to both men and 150 women (basketball, golf, hockey and soccer) using a 2-way ANOVA with gender and 151 sport as factors.…”

The effects of sole vibration stimulation on Korean male professional volleyball players’ jumping and balance ability

“…Whole body vibration exercise delivers stimulus to the tissues, including the muscles around the ankle joints, which play an important role in balance ability, thereby increasing muscle strength, enhancing proprioceptive sense, and mobility; and vibration exercise has consistently been reported to be very effective at improving balance ability 25 , 26 ) . However, such effects are different according to the direction of vibration stimulation and the number of vibrations 27 ) , and in order to clarify the effect of one-leg standing with the eyes closed, research which measures other factors known to affect equilibrium should be studied together.…”