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11311498

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-20
pubmed:abstractText
The goal of this paper was (1) to investigate if gymnasts have a more stable standing posture than experts in other sports, and (2) to determine how much gymnasts are affected by the removal of vision in different postural tasks. Six expert gymnasts and six experts in other non-gymnastic sports were asked to maintain balance in three standing postures of increasing difficulty: bipedal, unipedal, and unipedal + unstable support (i.e. 7 cm thick foam surface). Each posture was tested successively with and without vision. Based on the displacement of the center of pressure (range and mean average speed), the results showed that when visual cues were available, postural sway increased with the difficulty of the task, but both groups had comparable performance in all the tasks. When vision was removed, although both groups demonstrated larger postural sway in the unipedal tasks, this effect was less accentuated for the gymnasts. We concluded that gymnasts are able to use the remaining sensory modalities to compensate for the lack of vision in unstable postures.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0304-3940
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
303
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
83-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
The effect of expertise in gymnastics on postural control.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire Sport et Performance Motrice, Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble1, Grenoble, France. nicolas.vuillerme@kin.msp.ulaval.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't