Citation

Romero-Franco N, Gallego-Izquierdo T, Martínez-López EJ, Hita-Contreras F, Catalina OP, Martínez-Amat A. J. Phys. Ther. Sci. 2014; 26(5): 683-687.

Affiliation

Department of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Society of Physical Therapy Science)

DOI

10.1589/jpts.26.683

PMID

24926132

PMCID

PMC4047232

Abstract

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to analyze stabilometry in athletes during an indoor season in order to determine whether injured athletes show different stabilometric values before injury than non-injured athletes in two different training periods (volume and pre-competition periods). [Subjects] The subjects were 51 athletes from Unicaja athletic club who trained regularly. [Methods] At the end of the preseason and volume periods, athletes were subjected to bipodal and monopodal stabilometry. In addition, all injuries happening in the periods after performing stabilometry (volume and pre-competition periods) were tracked. [Results] Variance analysis of bipodal stabilometric measurements taken at the end of the preseason period showed that athletes with higher values for the center-of-pressure spread variables suffered injuries during the volume period. The right-leg monopodal stabilometric measurements taken at the end of the volume period showed that athletes with higher values in the center-of-pressure position variables suffered injuries during the pre-competition period. [Conclusion] Athletes showing the worst values for center-of-pressure spread variables are more prone to sports injuries in the subsequent training period. In monopodal measurements, athletes with poorer mediolateral stability were more prone to injuries in the subsequent training period.

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