Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes.

ABSTRACT: In sports, postural balance control has been demonstrated to be one of the limiting factors of performance and a necessary component to achieve any sport technique. Team players (TP) must process and react to multiple external stimuli while executing at the same time the skills of the game. By contrast, endurance athletes (END) must perform the same gesture repetitively without a concurrent coordination of continuous stimuli-related actions. However, END are used to facilitate their physical performance by adopting cognitive strategies while performing their sport gesture. Therefore, we aimed to investigate static and dynamic balance performance in these two types of athletes, both in single and dual-task conditions. Nineteen END and sixteen TP underwent a static and a dynamic balance asse

SUBMITTER: Sarto F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501801 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature