Abstract
Balance is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It has become an essential component of performance conditioning...
Highlights
Balance is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle
The 68 collegiate athletes consisted of 43 males and 25 females who participated in basketball, baseball, volleyball, cross-country, track, tennis, and golf at the University of New Orleans, a D-1 university that competes in the Southland Conference
Because the parametric one-way ANOVA results were not validated for all 5 balance tests, non-parametric Mann-Whitney tests were applied to analyze the results for all 5 of the balance tests
Summary
Balance is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It has become an essential component of performance conditioning for athletes trying to improve their athletic skillset or for the elderly trying to sustain their quality of life by reducing the risk of injury due to falls. The need for mobility while maintaining stability in a static position or in a dynamic one is crucial to everyday life and athletic competition. Programs have been developed to improve an individual’s stability and mobility through balance exercise programs that provide strength, endurance and flexibility to major muscles used in specific movements and their associated stabilizing muscles [1]. As is the case for any conditioning program, assessments must be administered before a suitable program can be devised for the subject or the subpopulation in question [3]
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