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The effect of contact sport expertise on postural control
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posted on 2019-04-25, 13:01 authored by Ying Liang, Michael HileyMichael Hiley, Kazuyuki KanosueIt has been demonstrated that expertise in sport influences standing balance ability. However, little is known concerning how physical contact in sport affects balance ability. The aim of this study was to examine whether differences between contact and limited-contact sport experiences results in differences in postural control. Twenty male collegiate athletes (10 soccer/contact, 10 baseball/limited contact) and ten male untrained students stood quietly on a force plate under various bipedal and unipedal conditions, with and without vision. Significant differences for sway area and COP speed were found between the soccer players and the other two groups for unipedal stances without vision. Soccer players were found to have superior postural control compared with participants involved in limited contact sport or no sport at all. Contact sports may lead to increased postural control through enhanced use of proprioceptive and vestibular information.
Funding
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, under Grant-in-Aid from the Global COE ‘Sport Sciences for the Promotion of Active Life’, Waseda University; and Anhui Provincial Natural Science under Grant [number 1608085QH175].
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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PLOS ONEVolume
14Issue
2Pages
e0212334 - e0212334Citation
LIANG, Y., HILEY, M.J. and KANOSUE, K., 2019. The effect of contact sport expertise on postural control. PLoS ONE, 14 (2), e0212334.Publisher
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2019-01-31Publication date
2019-02-14Notes
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/eISSN
1932-6203Publisher version
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- en