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Relationship between agility and lower limb muscle strength, targeting university badminton players
- Source :
- Journal of Physical Therapy Science
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- [Purpose] Targeting university badminton players, this study investigated the relationship between agility, which is associated with performance in badminton, and lower limb muscle strength, and examined which muscles influence agility. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 23 male university badminton players were evaluated for side-shuffle test scores and lower limb strength. The relationships between agility, lower limb strength, and duration of experience playing badminton were evaluated using a correlation analysis. Moreover, the relationship between agility and lower limb strength was evaluated by partial correlation analysis, adjusting for the effects of experience of each badminton player. [Results] The agility score correlated with hip extension and ankle plantar flexion strength, with adjustment for badminton experience. [Conclusion] This study suggests that hip extension training and improvement in ankle plantar flexion strength may improve agility.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Muscle strength
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Badminton
030229 sport sciences
Lower limb
Plantar flexion
body regions
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Lower limb muscle
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
medicine.anatomical_structure
Hip extension
Correlation analysis
Partial correlation analysis
medicine
Agility
Original Article
Ankle
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09155287
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of physical therapy science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....280b74f826d5cf8b3cc2d54191381b7e