Balance ability and athletic performance

C Hrysomallis - Sports medicine, 2011 - Springer
The relationship between balance ability and sport injury risk has been established in many
cases, but the relationship between balance ability and athletic performance is less clear …

Plasticity of the postural function to sport and/or motor experience

T Paillard - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
This review addresses the possible structural and functional adaptations of the postural
function to motor experience. Evidence suggests that postural performance and strategy …

Postural stability in athletes: The role of sport direction

A Andreeva, A Melnikov, D Skvortsov, K Akhmerova… - Gait & posture, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The bulk of relevant studies compare individual or very few sports and on small
samples of athletes. This requires extensive analysing postural stability in various sports …

A systematic review of the relationship between physical activities in sports or daily life and postural sway in upright stance

H Kiers, J van Dieën, H Dekkers, H Wittink, L Vanhees - Sports medicine, 2013 - Springer
Background In many sports, maintaining balance is necessary to compete at a high level.
Also, in many health problems, balance is impaired. Postural sway (PS) is often used as an …

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

E Zemková, Z Kováčiková - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Effects of various exercise programs on postural balance control in athletes and their
underlying physiological mechanisms have been extensively investigated. However, little is …

[HTML][HTML] Balance training exercises decrease lower-limb strength asymmetry in young tennis players

I Sannicandro, G Cofano, RA Rosa… - Journal of sports science …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The issue of functional asymmetries in the lower-limbs has been the subject of numerous
recent investigations concerning many different contact, limited-contact and non-contact …

Low energy availability and low body fat of female gymnasts before an international competition

MRG Silva, T Paiva - European Journal of Sport Science, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate dietary intake and body composition of
elite rhythmic gymnastics (RG) athletes prior to a competition event. Sixty-seven rhythmic …

Postural stability in athletes: The role of age, sex, performance level, and athlete shoe features

A Andreeva, A Melnikov, D Skvortsov, K Akhmerova… - Sports, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Determinants of competitive performance in rhythmic gymnastics: a review

M Bobo-Arce, B Méndez Rial - 2013 - rua.ua.es
Rhythmic Gymnastics is as a complex artistic and aesthetic sport with a particular training
process and which demands high levels of physical and psychological stress in competition …

Postural ability reflects the athletic skill level of surfers

T Paillard, E Margnes, M Portet, A Breucq - European journal of applied …, 2011 - Springer
This work analyses surfers' postural control and their use of visual information in static
(stable) and dynamic (unstable) postures according to their level of competition. Two groups …