Postural Balance in Relation with Vision and Physical Activity in Healthy Young Adults

Onofrei, Roxana Ramona; Amăricăi, Elena

doi:10.3390/ijerph19095021

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“…More specifically, athletes of both team and individual sports demonstrate better body balance over the group of non-athletes ( Mocanu et al, 2022 ). Lateral CoP deviation is also lower in individuals with moderate than low physical activities ( Onofrei and Amaricai, 2022 ). However, static balance in collegiate athletes with a sport background does not differ from their multisport counterparts ( Chou et al, 2022 ).…”

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Sport-specific training induced adaptations in postural control and their relationship with athletic performance

Zemková

Kovačíková

2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Effects of various exercise programs on postural balance control in athletes and their underlying physiological mechanisms have been extensively investigated. However, little is known regarding how challenging sport-specific conditions contribute to the improvement of body balance and to what extent these changes may be explained by sensorimotor and/or neuromuscular function adaptations. Analysis of the literature could provide useful information on the interpretation of changes in postural sway variables in response to long-term sport-specific training and their association with performance measures. Therefore, the aim of this scoping review was (1) to analyze the literature investigating postural control adaptations induced by sport-specific training and their relationship with measures of athletic performance, and (2) to identify gaps in the existing research and to propose suggestions for future studies. A literature search conducted with Scopus, Web of Science, MEDLINE and Cochrane Library was completed by Elsevier, SpringerLink and Google Scholar with no date restrictions. Overall, 126 articles were eligible for inclusion. However, the association between variables of postural balance control and measures of sport-specific performance was investigated in only 14 of the articles. A relationship between static and/or dynamic balance and criterion measures of athletic performance was revealed in shooting, archery, golf, baseball, ice-hockey, tennis, and snowboarding. This may be ascribed to improved ability of athletes to perform postural adjustments in highly balanced task demands. However, the extent to which sport-specific exercises contribute to their superior postural stability is unknown. Although there is a good deal of evidence supporting neurophysiological adaptations in postural balance control induced by body conditioning exercises, little effort has been made to explain balance adaptations induced by sport-specific exercises and their effects on athletic performance. While an enhancement in athletic performance is often attributed to an improvement of neuromuscular functions induced by sport-specific balance exercises, it can be equally well ascribed to their improvement by general body conditioning exercises. Therefore, the relevant experiments have yet to be conducted to investigate the relative contributions of each of these exercises to improving athletic performance.

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Sport-specific training induced adaptations in postural control and their relationship with athletic performance

Zemková

Kovačíková

2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…For healthy young people in Romania (18-25 years), there are no differences in postural balance according to gender, but the group of those who are involved in moderate physical activity has higher values of balance compared to those who have a low level of physical activism [68]. For our group, we identified the superior performance of women for most tests, even if they are only significant for the Flamingo test and Bass test (p < 0.05).…”

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The Influence of Gender and the Specificity of Sports Activities on the Performance of Body Balance for Students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports

Mocanu

Murariu

Onu

et al. 2022

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A sense of balance is required in sports activities, conditioning the quality of movements and physical performance. (1) The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of gender and the specificity of sports activities on body balance. The investigated participants are 157 students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports/Bachelor’s degree: 109 men (age = 20.49 ± 2.03, body mass index, BMI = 22.96 ± 3.20), and 48 women (age = 20.21 ± 1.51, BMI = 21.05 ± 2.78). (2) Design: Cross-sectional study, with the definition of the variables gender and sport activity with three stages (non-athletes/NA, team sports games/TSG, and individual sports/IS). The evaluation was based on four dynamic balance tests (Bass test/points, Functional reach test/cm, Fukuda test/degrees of rotation, and Walk and turn field sobriety test/errors) and three static balance tests (Flamingo test/falls, Stork test, and One-leg standing test with eyes closed/s). (3) Results: The variance analysis (multivariate and univariate tests) indicates the superiority of women in most tests applied, but with significantly better values (p < 0.05) only for the Flamingo test and Bass test. Men have superior results only for vestibular stability (Fukuda test) and One-leg standing test, but it is statistically insignificant (p > 0.05). The TSG group has slightly better values than the IS group for the whole set of tests conducted, but these are not statistically significant (p > 0.05), so we cannot highlight the certain superiority of TSG practitioners over those involved in IS. Both the TSG and the IS group outperformed all tests compared to the NA group, with significant differences (p < 0.05), especially for the TSG. Conclusion: Women have better values than men on most tests, and performance sports students have higher average scores than those in the NA group, which demonstrates the beneficial influence of specific training on static and dynamic postural stability.

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“…Specifically, there was a trend for fourth-grade students’ balance ability to change with the effect of additional visual task in physical exercise on UDVA, validating the research hypothesis. Onofrei and Amaricai ( 24 ) suggested that physical exercise and visual acuity were important factors that affected human postural balance, and that physical balance was influenced by the interaction of physical exercise and visual acuity. In this study, the partial mediating effect of UDVA on the impact of physical exercise on balance ability confirmed this view.…”

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“…Singh et al ( 23 ) have shown that vision, specific postures in sports, frequency and duration of exercise played decisive role in effects of physical activity on standing postural stability. Onofrei and Amaricai ( 24 ) pointed out that physical activity and vision were important factors affecting the postural balance of healthy students, and body balance was affected by the interaction of physical activity and vision. To sum up, children’s visual acuity had a certain impact on their balance ability.…”

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The impact of additional visual tasks in physical exercise on balance ability among 9–10-year-old children: the mediating effect of visual acuity

Yin,

Zhu,

Liu

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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PurposeThis study aimed to explore the effects of additional visual tasks in physical exercise on the vision and balance ability of children, and to verify whether children’s vision mediated the influence of physical exercise on their balance ability.MethodsThe study randomly selected 86 students aged 9–10 years old from a school in Suzhou city, dividing them into an experimental group (n = 43) and a control group (n = 43). The experimental group participated in physical exercise with additional visual tasks, while the control group engaged in routine physical exercise. The experiment lasted for 16 weeks, with kinetic visual acuity (KVA), uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), static balance, and dynamic balance measured before and after the experiment.ResultsThe results showed that after the experiment, the experimental group had significantly improved kinetic visual acuity (KVA), uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), static balance, and dynamic balance. In contrast, the control group had significantly decreased kinetic visual acuity, no significant improvement in uncorrected distance visual acuity, and no significant difference in dynamic balance and static balance. In the experimental group, there was a moderate positive correlation between kinetic visual acuity and uncorrected distance visual acuity, and a moderate positive correlation between uncorrected distance visual acuity and both static and dynamic balance. The study also found that uncorrected distance visual acuity partially mediated the effect of additional visual tasks during physical exercise on static and dynamic balance among children.ConclusionIn conclusion, adding visual tasks to physical exercise had a positive effect on improving children’s vision and balance ability. Kinetic visual acuity and uncorrected distance visual acuity were positively correlated, and uncorrected distance visual acuity was positively correlated with both static and dynamic balance. Uncorrected distance visual acuity partially mediated the effect of physical exercise on children’s balance ability.

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Postural Balance in Relation with Vision and Physical Activity in Healthy Young Adults

Cited by 17 publications

References 50 publications

Sport-specific training induced adaptations in postural control and their relationship with athletic performance

Sport-specific training induced adaptations in postural control and their relationship with athletic performance

The Influence of Gender and the Specificity of Sports Activities on the Performance of Body Balance for Students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports

The impact of additional visual tasks in physical exercise on balance ability among 9–10-year-old children: the mediating effect of visual acuity

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