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Altered visual focus on sensorimotor control in people with chronic ankle instability.
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Journal of Sports Sciences . Jan2016, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p171-180. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of the combination of chronic ankle instability (CAI) and altered visual focus on strategies for dynamic stability during a drop-jump task. Nineteen participants with self-reported CAI and 19 healthy participants performed a drop-jump task in looking-up and looking-down conditions. For the looking-up condition, participants looked up and read a random number that flashed on a computer monitor. For the looking-down condition, participants focused their vision on the force plate. Sagittal- and frontal-plane kinematics in the hip, knee and ankle were calculated at the time points of 100 ms pre-initial foot contact to ground and at IC. The resultant vector time to stabilisation was calculated with ground reaction force data. The CAI group demonstrated less hip flexion at the point of 100 ms pre-initial contact (P < 0.01), and less hip flexion (P = 0.03) and knee flexion at initial contact (P = 0.047) compared to controls. No differences in kinematics or dynamic stability were observed in either looking-up or looking-down conditions (P > 0.05). Altered visual focus did not influence movement patterns during the drop-jump task, but the presence of CAI did. The current data suggests that centrally mediated changes associated with CAI may lead to global alterations in the sensorimotor control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ANALYSIS of variance
*ANKLE
*ANKLE injuries
*CHRONIC diseases
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*DYNAMICS
*GROUND reaction forces (Biomechanics)
*HIP joint
*JOINT hypermobility
*JUMPING
*KINEMATICS
*KNEE
*NEUROPLASTICITY
*HEALTH outcome assessment
*PROBABILITY theory
*SPRAINS
*STATISTICS
*T-test (Statistics)
*VISUAL perception
*DATA analysis
*ACTIVITIES of daily living
*EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
*REPEATED measures design
*BLIND experiment
*RETROSPECTIVE studies
*CASE-control method
*MOTION capture (Human mechanics)
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*DISEASE complications
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02640414
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Sports Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 111588341
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2015.1043324