ArticleJournal of athletic training2019
Sport Specialization and Coordination Differences in Multisport Adolescent Female Basketball, Soccer, and Volleyball Athletes.
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Abstract
contextEarly sport specialization, or the participation in 1 sport year-round to the exclusion of all others, is a growing concern in youth athletics because of its possible association with musculoskeletal injury. The underlying injury risk may be the result of coordination differences that sport-specialized athletes have been speculated to exhibit relative to multisport athletes; however, little evidence exists to support or refute this notion.
objectiveTo examine relative hip- and knee-joint angular-motion variability among adolescent sport-specialized and multisport female adolescent athletes to determine how sport specialization may affect coordination.
designCohort study.
settingResearch laboratory. PATIENTS OR OTHER
participantsA total of 366 sport-specialized and 366 multisport adolescent female basketball, soccer, and volleyball players. INTERVENTION(S): Drop-vertical-jump (DVJ) assessment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Average coupling-angle variability (CAV) for hip flexion and knee flexion, knee flexion and ankle flexion, hip flexion and knee abduction, knee flexion and knee abduction, knee flexion and knee internal rotation, and knee abduction and knee internal rotation.
resultsThe sport-specialized group exhibited increased coupling variability in dominant-limb hip flexion and knee flexion (
conclusionsSport specialization was associated with increased variability of critical hip- and knee-joint couplings responsible for effective landing during the DVJ. Altered coordination strategies that involve the hip and knee joints may underlie unstable landings, inefficient force-absorption strategies, or greater contact forces that can place the lower extremities at risk for injury (or a combination of these).
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