ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2022
Eccentric and Isometric Shoulder Rotation Strength and Range of Motion: Normative Values for Adolescent Competitive Tennis Players.
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- Tennis Serve Speed in Relation to Isokinetic Shoulder Strength, Height, and Segmental Body Mass in Junior Players.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Range of Motion and Muscle Stiffness Differences in Junior Tennis Players with and without a History of Shoulder Pain.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2025Article
- Shoulder range of motion in competitive tennis players: systematic review and meta-analysis.JSES international · 2024Review
- Joint position and force senses in young female tennis players and untrained adolescents.PloS one · 2024Article
- Professional tennis players suffer high prevalence of shoulder alterations during the season: a possible tennis shoulder syndrome.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Posterior Shoulder Instability in Tennis Players: Aetiology, Classification, Assessment and Management.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate isometric internal rotation (IR), external rotation (ER), abduction (ABD), and eccentric external rotation (eccER) shoulder strength and rotational range of motion (ROM) in adolescent male and female competitive tennis players. Additional aims of the study were to provide a tennis-specific normative database based on a large sample of players to deepen the knowledge regarding shoulder strength and ROM for adolescent competitive tennis players, and to discuss differences based on sex, age, and level of play. Shoulder strength and ROM was assessed in 301 adolescent competitive tennis players, 176 boys and 125 girls with a mean age of 14.6 and 14.4 years, respectively. Outcome variables of interest were isometric IR and ER strength, ABD strength, eccER shoulder strength, intermuscular strength ratios ER/IR and eccER/IR, IR ROM, ER ROM, and total range of motion (TROM). A General Linear Model two-way ANOVA was used to analyze differences in sex, age, and level of play. The findings of this study demonstrated age, side, and sex differences in the shoulder isometric strength, the eccER strength and ROM in adolescent competitive tennis players. Furthermore, when strength was expressed as ratios ER/IR and eccER/IR both sexes showed a lower ratio for eccER/IR in national players (0.95 ± 0.22 and 0.95 ± 0.23) compared to regional players (1.01 ± 0.32 and 1.07 ± 0.29) for male and female players, respectively. In conclusion, this paper presents a tennis-specific normative database for shoulder rotation strength and ROM in adolescent male and female competitive players. The key points in this evaluation are strength values normalized to body mass, intermuscular ratios, and TROM.
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