TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of contact sport expertise on postural control
AU - Liang, Ying
AU - Hiley, Michael
AU - Kanosue, Kazuyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
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]. No: The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Liang et al. 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.
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - It 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.
AB - It 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.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0212334
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0212334
M3 - Article
C2 - 30763383
AN - SCOPUS:85061542840
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 14
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
IS - 2
M1 - e0212334
ER -