ArticleBMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation2020
Influence of typical handball characteristics on upper body posture and postural control in male handball players.
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- Relationship between plantar pressure distribution and sagittal spinal curvatures among handball players: A cross-sectional study.Hong Kong physiotherapy journal : official publication of the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Limited = Wu li chih liao · 2025Article
- The Effects of Proprioceptive Exercises on Postural Control in Handball Players with Chronic Ankle Instability-A Non-Randomized Control Trial.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Musculoskeletal complaints, postural patterns and psychosocial workplace predictors in police officers from an organizational unit of a German federal state police force - a study protocol.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2023Article
- The Importance of Posture and Body Composition for The Stability and Selected Motor Abilities of Professional Handball Players.Journal of human kinetics · 2022Article
- The Disturbing Effect of Neuromuscular Fatigue on Postural Control Is Accentuated in the Premenstrual Phase in Female Athletes.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundWell defined constitutional parameters support the physical fatigue resistance in handball to maintain the performance level for the majority of actions. Ideal constitutional conditions are necessary to achieve these physiological advantages in handball. But limited knowledge exists about the upper body posture or the postural control in correlation to the Body Mass Index (BMI), playing years, playing position and throwing arm in professional male handball.
methodsNinety-one male handball players participate (24.1 ± 5.9 years; playing experience 16.6 ± 5.7 years). A three-dimensional back scanner and a pressure measuring plate were used.
resultsCorrelations between BMI and upper body posture and postural control were not significant. Same counts for the comparison between the left and right throwing arm according to upper body posture and postural control (
conclusionGoalkeeper, Backcourt and pivot players are taller and heavier than wing players. These physiological demands are not detectable in the upper body posture and slightly in postural control. Wing players have the most asymmetric load distribution and the longest length of CoP. Since goalkeepers do not differ from pivot or backcourt players, this can be lead back to the same training.
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