Balance Control Deficits are Associated With Diminished Ankle Force Sense, Not Position Sense, in Athletes With Chronic Ankle Instability.

Autor: Xiao S; Key Laboratory of Exercise and Health Sciences of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China., Shen B; Key Laboratory of Exercise and Health Sciences of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China., Xu Z; Key Laboratory of Exercise and Health Sciences of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China., Zhan J; Key Laboratory of Exercise and Health Sciences of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China., Zhang C; Key Laboratory of Exercise and Health Sciences of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China., Han J; College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, China; Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, University of Canberra, Bruce, Australia. Electronic address: jia.han@canberra.edu.au., Fu W; Key Laboratory of Exercise and Health Sciences of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: fuweijie@sus.edu.cn.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation [Arch Phys Med Rehabil] 2024 Nov; Vol. 105 (11), pp. 2127-2134. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 14.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2024.06.019
Abstrakt: Objectives: To compare balance control and ankle proprioception between athletes with and without chronic ankle instability (CAI). A further objective was to explore the relationship between balance control performance and ankle proprioception in athletes with CAI.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Settings: Sports Rehabilitation Laboratory.
Participants: Eighty-eight recreational athletes (47 CAI and 41 healthy control) were recruited.
Interventions: No applicable.
Main Outcome Measures: Balance control performance was assessed using the sway velocity of the center of the pressure during the one-leg standing tasks. Ankle proprioception, including joint position sense and force sense, were tested using absolute error (AE) associated with joint position reproduction and force reproduction tasks in 4 directions, that is, plantarflexion, dorsiflexion, inversion, and eversion.
Results: Athletes with CAI performed significantly worse than those without CAI in balance control tasks. In addition, CAI athletes showed significantly worse joint position sense and force sense in all 3 movement directions tested (plantarflexion, inversion, and eversion). Correlation analysis showed that the AE of the plantarflexion force sense was significantly moderately correlated with medial-lateral sway velocity in the one-leg standing with eyes open and closed conditions (r=.372-.403, P=.006-.012), and the AE of inversion force sense was significantly moderately correlated with medial-lateral sway velocity in the one-leg standing with eyes open (r=.345, P=.018) in athletes with CAI, but the joint position sense measures were not (all P>0.05).
Conclusions: Athletes with CAI showed significantly impaired balance control performance and diminished ankle proprioception. Deficit in force sense was deemed as a moderate predictor of one-leg standing balance control deficits in athletes with dominant-side injury CAI, whereas ankle position sense may be a small predictor.
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Databáze: MEDLINE