Interpersonal Coordination between Female Soccer Players: Leader-Follower Roles within a Collision-Avoidance Task.

ABSTRACT:

Background/purpose

Return to sport decision-making may be improved by assessing an athlete's ability to coordinate movement with opponents in sport. The purpose was to investigate whether previous injuries associated with female soccer players' interpersonal coordination during a collision avoidance task. The authors hypothesized that external perturbations would disrupt the strength and stability of coordinated movement, and that individuals with a history of injury would be less likely to recover coordinated movement.

Study design

Cross-Sectional.

Methods

Nine female athletes with a history of lower extremity injuries and nine without injuries were paired into dyads. Each dyad completed twenty trials of an externally paced collision-avoidance agility task with an un

SUBMITTER: Fernandes CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11065781 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature