Upper Quarter Y Balance test performance: Normative values for healthy youth aged 10 to 17 years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Upper Quarter Y Balance test (YBT-UQ) is a field test for measuring shoulder mobility/stability. However, there is a lack of information regarding age- and sex-specific reference values for classifying the YBT-UQ performance of children and adolescents.

Objective

The aim was to investigate YBT-UQ performance in youth and to provide age- and sex-specific normative values.

Method

Six hundred and sixty-five persons (325 girls, 340 boys) aged between 10 and 17 years carried out the YBT-UQ test. Following this, maximum reach values, normalised in terms of arm length, were calculated for each arm (i.e., left and right) and reach direction (i.e., medial [MD], inferolateral [IL], superolateral [SL]), and the composite score (CS) per arm. Additionally, percentil

SUBMITTER: Schwiertz G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8213051 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature