Titel
Acute response on general and sport specific hip joint flexibility to training with novel sport device
Autor*in
Manfred Grafinger
Department for Virtual Product Development, Vienna University of Technology
Autor*in
Martin Mattaeus Smiech
Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO), Vienna University of Technology
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Abstract
The study objective is to test general- and sport-specific adaption during a single training on the Flexibility Trainer. The device is designed to trigger residual muscle tone decreases of the hip-joint muscles by providing (nearly) isokinetic resistance during a full range of motion strength training in adduction/abduction and flexion/extension direction. Static hip flexion and abduction as well as kinematics of double side kicks were analysed on 15 participants before and after training (or rest for controls) to assess general flexibility and sport-specific movement range. Tests were recorded by a Vicon® motion capturing system. Static hip flexion and abduction as well as leg vector spreading angles (VSA) at different nodes of the kick were selected to determine adaptions of active and passive flexibility. Normalised hip joint moments, movement velocities and VSA were calculated to evaluate the training with the device. ANOVAs with 4-repeated measures and Friedman tests were performed to identify time differences and Bonferroni post-hoc test to identify between-subject effects. Significant differences were found for both static flexibility tests (Flexion = 13.65%; Abduction = 9.94%) and the VSA at specific action phases (≤15.15%). Results indicate that short-term adaptions when training with the Flexibility Trainer are exceeding comparable literature showing improved flexibility and sport-specific performance.
Stichwort
Range of motionstrengthmartial artssports engineeringproprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1536405
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Titel
Sports Biomechanics
ISSN
1476-3141
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Seitenanfang
1
Seitenende
16
Verlag
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
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