The functional evaluation of athletes is the sports physiotherapist's initial opportunity to iden tify dysfunctions and muscle imbalance. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between basketball players' shortening hip adductors with Patrick's Test and their balance and coordination with the Shark Skill Test. Methods: We tested 65 healthy active basketball players in Basketball Club "Rilski sportist"-Samokov and the National Bulgarian Basketball Team. The athletes were divided into 2 groups: 22 players in the first Control Group with average 20.9 years and 21 youth players in the second Group with average 15.6 years. They were observed voluntarily in 2016. The 2 tests were applied at least 12 hours after the training. The shortness of hip adductors was assessed with Patrick's Test and balance and coordination skills-with Shark Skill Test. Results: The results from the Shark Skill Test on the left and on the right lower limb demon strated statistically significant better time and fewer mistakes among 1G basketball players (aver age 20.9 years) with shorter left and right adductors than these with normal adductors' elasticity. In contrast, there were no statistically significant differences among the youth athletes. Conclusion: Summarizing the results, it is clear that the basketball play causes the shortening of the hip adductors of men and teenagers. In this aspect, it is important that the asymmetry of the adductor elasticity in both groups does not lead to statistically significant differences in the dura tion and mistakes during performance of the Shark skill test. In our opinion, it is necessary to expand the study by applying physiotherapy for the short ened hip adductors and track changes in the implementation of the Shark Skill Test before and after treatment.

Introduction The foot disorders in children are a widespread problem and the studies in this aspect are very scanт. THE AIM of the research is to assess the symmetry in loading of the foot in children via a tensometric platform. Methodology The tensometric platform ISTEP 5000 was applied in 145 children (76 girls and 69 boys) with the average age 8, 66 (from 7 to 10 years) at the School "Iordan Iovkov"-Sofia during the period April-May 2017. Results The results were processed through IBMSPSS Statistics v.19 program and MS Excel, using: variation analysis, statistical hypothesis testing, which includes Student's t-distribution among the indicators with guarantee probability P (t). The differences between loading of the left and right foot are statistically significant: in girls d=-3.974 with t emp =6.65, P (t) 100.00; boys d=-2.710 with t emp =3.98, P (t) 99.99. The results demonstrated statistically significant asymmetry in loading of the foot. Discussion Methods for the functional diagnostic of the foot are very limited and innovation in this area is essential for the prevention of the disorders. Conclusions This study confirmed that the applying of the tensometric platform ISTEP 5000 contribute very important data and give an opportunity to precise the functional diagnostics of the foot in children at primary classes.