Evaluation Of Ankle Proprioception Among Athletes Of Selected Sports Athletes

Introduction
Proprioceptive mechanisms appear to play a role in stabilizing the joints and may serve as a means for interplay
between static stabilizers and dynamic muscular restraints. The purpose of study was to investigate whether different
sports training has any effect on proprioception in an ankle.

Methods
A total of 18 subjects were recruited from the sports of archery, judo and regular college students to participate the
study. Two different tests(an active angle-reproduction test, and a passive angle-reproduction test) were used to
measure the proprioception ability of the ankle. The Biodex system III isokinetic dynamometer was used for the
measurement of joint active and passive position sense.

Results
The results showed that there was significant difference between Judo athletes and archery athletes on mean absolute
position error while performing active angle-reproduction test. There was significant difference between archery
athletes and regular college students on mean absolute position error while performing passive angle-reproduction test..

Discussion/Conclusions
It was concluded that judo athletes have better balance performance in the active position reproduction test. It was
suggested that the dynamic balance training in Judo sport may contribute to the results. The archery athletes have better
static balance performance in passive position reproduction test because of long period of archery static stance training.

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