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Reliability of lower limb biomechanics in two sport-specific sidestep cutting tasks
- Source :
- Sports biomechanics. 17(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to assess the within- and between-session reliability of lower limb biomechanics in two sport-specific sidestep cutting tasks performed by elite female handball and football (soccer) athletes. Moreover, we aimed at determining the minimum number of trials necessary to obtain a reliable measure. Nineteen elite female handball and 22 elite female football (soccer) athletes (M ± SD: 22 ± 4 yrs old, 168 ± 5 cm, 66 ± 8 kg) were tested. The reliability was quantified by intra-class correlations (ICCs), typical error and Spearman's rank correlation. Only minor improvements in ICC values were seen when increasing the number of trials from 3 to 5. Based on trials 1-3, all variables showed good to excellent within-session reliability (M ICC: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.89-0.93), fair to good between-session reliability (M ICC: 0.73, 95% CI: 0.70-0.76), moderately positive between-session rank correlation coefficients (M: 0.72, 95% CI: 0.69-0.76). A few frontal plane biomechanical variables displayed lower between-session reliability in the football task compared with the handball task. The moderately positive between-session ranking and practically small typical error implies that the measurements could reliably reproduce the ranking of individuals in multiple-session studies. Adequate reliability could be attained from 3 trials, with only minor improvements when adding more trials.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Football
Lower limb
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Soccer
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Reliability (statistics)
Rank correlation
030222 orthopedics
biology
3d motion analysis
screening task
Athletes
Biomechanics
Reproducibility of Results
030229 sport sciences
test-retest
biology.organism_classification
kinematics and kinetics
Biomechanical Phenomena
Lower Extremity
Motor Skills
Time and Motion Studies
Physical therapy
Female
elite female athletes
Psychology
Sports
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17526116
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sports biomechanics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9872f22acc5847ec46f4b0b3fe77c0b2