Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes
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 contr...
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| author | Fabio Sarto Giorgia Cona Francesco Chiossi Antonio Paoli Patrizia Bisiacchi Elisabetta Patron Giuseppe Marcolin |
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| description | 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 assessment on a dynamometric platform and an instrumented oscillating board, respectively. Among TP static but not dynamic postural balance performance was negatively affected by dual-tasking considering the area of the confidence ellipse (p < 0.001; d = 0.52) and the sway path mean speed (p < 0.001; d = 0.93). Conversely, END unaltered static balance performance but showed an overall improvement in the dynamic one when dual-tasking occurred. The limited human processing capacity accounted the worsening of the cognitive performance in both TP (p < 0.05; d = 0.22) and END (p < 0.001; d = 0.37). Although TP are more used coping dual tasking, the better performance of END could be accounted for by the employment of the external attentive focus (i.e. counting backward aloud) that called into play a strategy close to those adopted during training and competitions. These surprising results should be considered when driving and developing new trainings for team players in dual-tasking conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-540f734559bb462cb75c86294b9dba862023-12-03T07:15:34ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ2167-83592020-09-018e976510.7717/peerj.9765Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletesFabio Sarto0Giorgia Cona1Francesco Chiossi2Antonio Paoli3Patrizia Bisiacchi4Elisabetta Patron5Giuseppe Marcolin6School of Human Movement Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, ItalyDepartment of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, ItalyDepartment of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, ItalyDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, ItalyDepartment of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, ItalyDepartment of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, ItalyDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, ItalyIn 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 assessment on a dynamometric platform and an instrumented oscillating board, respectively. Among TP static but not dynamic postural balance performance was negatively affected by dual-tasking considering the area of the confidence ellipse (p < 0.001; d = 0.52) and the sway path mean speed (p < 0.001; d = 0.93). Conversely, END unaltered static balance performance but showed an overall improvement in the dynamic one when dual-tasking occurred. The limited human processing capacity accounted the worsening of the cognitive performance in both TP (p < 0.05; d = 0.22) and END (p < 0.001; d = 0.37). Although TP are more used coping dual tasking, the better performance of END could be accounted for by the employment of the external attentive focus (i.e. counting backward aloud) that called into play a strategy close to those adopted during training and competitions. These surprising results should be considered when driving and developing new trainings for team players in dual-tasking conditions.https://peerj.com/articles/9765.pdfEnduranceTeam sportAssessmentMotor controlBiomechanics |
| spellingShingle | Fabio Sarto Giorgia Cona Francesco Chiossi Antonio Paoli Patrizia Bisiacchi Elisabetta Patron Giuseppe Marcolin Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes PeerJ Endurance Team sport Assessment Motor control Biomechanics |
| title | Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes |
| title_full | Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes |
| title_fullStr | Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes |
| title_short | Dual-tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance: a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes |
| title_sort | dual tasking effects on static and dynamic postural balance performance a comparison between endurance and team sport athletes |
| topic | Endurance Team sport Assessment Motor control Biomechanics |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/9765.pdf |
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