Knee joint position sense and kinematic control in relation to motor competency in 13 to 14-year-old adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Motor competence (MC) is a key component reflecting one's ability to execute motor tasks and is an important predictor of physical fitness. For adolescents, understanding the factors affecting MC is pertinent to their development of more sophisticated sporting skills. Previous studies considered the influence of poor proprioceptive ability on MC, however, the relationship between lower limb joint position sense, kinematic control, and MC is not well understood. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the relation between joint position sense and kinematic control with MC in adolescents during a lower limb movement reproduction task.

Methods

This study was a cross-sectional design. Young people (n = 427, 196 girls and 231 boys) aged 13 to 14 years were re

SUBMITTER: Liu YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11440888 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature