Effects of local and general fatigue on static balance.

Abstract

A static balance test was given to 120 college men and women before and after 2 exercise bouts. In one type of exercise heel raises were used to induce local muscular fatigue. Squat thrusts were employed as the general body fatiguing exercise. Both general body-fatigue exercise and local-fatigue exercise impaired static balance performance. However, the general body-fatigue resulted in significantly greater decrement in static balance scores than local fatigue. There was no significant difference in the amount of impairment between men and women.