How to determine leg dominance: The agreement between self-reported and observed performance in healthy adults.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Since decades leg dominance is suggested to be important in rehabilitation and return to play in athletes with anterior cruciate ligament injuries. However, an ideal method to determine leg dominance in relation to task performance is still lacking.

Objective

To test the agreement between self-reported and observed leg dominance in bilateral mobilizing and unilateral stabilizing tasks, and to assess whether the dominant leg switches between bilateral mobilizing tasks and unilateral stabilizing tasks.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Participants

Forty-one healthy adults: 21 men aged 36 ± 17 years old and 20 women aged 36 ±15 years old.

Measurement and analysis

Participants self-reported leg dominance in the Waterloo Footedness Questionnaire-Revised

SUBMITTER: van Melick N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5747428 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature