The effect of expertise in gymnastics on postural control

被引:168
作者
Vuillerme, N [1 ]
Danion, F
Marin, L
Boyadjian, A
Prieur, JM
Weise, I
Nougier, V
机构
[1] Univ Grenoble 1, Lab Sport & Performance Motrice, Grenoble, France
[2] Univ Laval, Lab Performane Motrice Humaine, Quebec City, PQ G1K 7P4, Canada
[3] Penn State Univ, Dept Kinesiol, Motor Control Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[4] NYU, Dept Psychol, Infant Motor Dev Lab, New York, NY 10003 USA
[5] UFR STAPS, Calais, France
关键词
posture; gymnastics; vision; expertise;
D O I
10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01722-0
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
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. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:83 / 86
页数:4
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