Landing from different heights: Biomechanical and neuromuscular strategies in trained gymnasts and untrained prepubescent girls

Christoforidou, Artemis; Patikas, Dimitrios; Bassa, Eleni; Paraschos, I.; Lazaridis, Savvas; Christoforidis, Christos; Kotzamanidis, Christos

doi:10.1016/j.jelekin.2016.11.003

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“…Studies analyzing impact forces used by gymnasts have reported similar results to those found in the current study [ 17 ], in which prepubertal gymnasts had higher peak vertical GRF during landing than the untrained group, in agreement with Seegmiller and McCaw [ 14 ], who found that female gymnastics had higher peak vertical GRFs than female recreational athletes in drop landing. According to these results, high vertical GRFs experienced by gymnasts on landing may contribute to the risk of lower limb injuries.…”

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“…The participants were asked to land on their dominant lower limb (barefoot) on a force plate from a height of 25 cm with their hands on their hips. This specific height was established according to pilot data and consulted studies [ 17 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 ]. Lower limb dominancy was established by asking the children to kick a ball as hard as possible twice and the leg used was considered to be dominant (27 were right-footed and 3 left-footed).…”

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“…Landing, an integral part of sports [ 11 ], is a discrete task with a different beginning and end, without a continuous cyclic pattern [ 12 ]. It requires the rapid absorption of impact forces and involves a large amount of strain on the ligaments of the lower limb joints [ 11 ], however landing seems to be practiced only in specific jumping sports [ 12 ] and is one of the most frequently examined techniques in gymnastics [ 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ]. Understanding the motor patterns of landing is important not only for performance but also to prevent lower limb injuries [ 18 ].…”

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Children’s Single-Leg Landing Movement Capability Analysis According to the Type of Sport Practiced

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(1) Background: Understanding children’s motor patterns in landing is important not only for sport performance but also to prevent lower limb injury. The purpose of this study was to analyze children’s lower limb joint angles and impact force during single-leg landings (SLL) in different types of jumping sports using statistical parametric mapping (SPM). (2) Methods: Thirty children (53.33% girls, M = 10.16 years-old, standard deviation (SD) = 1.52) divided into three groups (gymnastics, volleyball and control) participated in the study. The participants were asked to do SLLs with the dominant lower limb (barefoot) on a force plate from a height of 25 cm. The vertical ground reaction force (GRF) and lower limb joint angles were assessed. SPM{F} one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and SPM{t} unpaired t-tests were performed during the landing and stability phases. (3) Results: A significant main effect was found in the landing phase of jumping sport practice in GRF and joint angles. During the stability phase, this effect was exhibited in ankle and knee joint angles. (4) Conclusions: Evidence was obtained of the influence of practicing a specific sport in childhood. Child volleyball players performed SLL with lower impact force and higher knee flexion than child gymnasts. Training in specific jumping sports (i.e., volleyball and gymnastics) could affect the individual capacity to adapt SLL execution.

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“…Other studies in this area have attempted to quantify the influence of skill on landing mechanics by comparing the landing techniques of both skilled and novice gymnasts. 15,16 The generalizability of the results from these studies to female court sport athletes is limited due to the aesthetic nature of the landings (gymnastics and dance). In a rare comparative study on court sport athletes Leppänen et al 17 report the surprising finding that basketballers typically land with greater knee valgus during drop vertical jumps (a known risk factor) compared to floorball players, a sport with relatively few jump-landings.…”

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Do the landing mechanics of experienced netball players differ from those of trained athletes competing in sports that do not require frequent landings?

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“…Thus, our results could be used to enhance Parkour training and performance. Moreover, results can be also used to understand new ways in which sport practitioners can land in order to prevent injuries like in gymnastic where the athletes tend to land with stiffer landings techniques (Christoforidou et al, 2017).…”

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Strategies of Parkour practitioners for executing soft precision landings

Maldonado

Souères

Watier

2018

Journal of Sports Sciences

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Parkour landing techniques differ from performances of other sports as they are practiced in urban spaces with uncontrolled surfaces and drop heights. Due to the relatively young age of the sport, few studies have tried to understand how practitioners - called traceurs - succeed at performing these dynamic performances. In this paper, we focus on the precision landing technique, which has a fundamental role in most of the Parkour motions. We analyzed the lower limbs motion of traceurs executing the precision landings from two different heights and compared their performance with untrained participants. We found that traceurs perform a soft landing extending its duration twice than untrained participants do [Formula: see text], increasing the range of motion [Formula: see text] and generating more mechanical energy [Formula: see text] to dissipate the impact. In the Parkour technique, the knee accounted for half of the energy dissipated. The peak joint torques [Formula: see text] and power [Formula: see text] were reduced in the Parkour technique. The increase of the landing height did not modify the proportion of individual joint mechanical energy contribution for dissipation. Our results could be used to enhance Parkour performance, and to understand new ways in which sport practitioners can land in order to prevent injuries.

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Landing from different heights: Biomechanical and neuromuscular strategies in trained gymnasts and untrained prepubescent girls

Cited by 26 publications

References 47 publications

Children’s Single-Leg Landing Movement Capability Analysis According to the Type of Sport Practiced

Children’s Single-Leg Landing Movement Capability Analysis According to the Type of Sport Practiced

Do the landing mechanics of experienced netball players differ from those of trained athletes competing in sports that do not require frequent landings?

Strategies of Parkour practitioners for executing soft precision landings

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