Relação entre desempenho no ybalance e side hop tests e amplitude de dorsiflesão de atletas cheerlearders

Abstract

Introducing: Cheerleading, a sport in great expansion among the young people, being usedin thispracticeahighcomplexitysignsofartisticgymnastics,asaresulttheriskofinjurieshas grown.Consequently,means(tools)likethefunctionaltestsandtheassessmentofrangeof motionareusedtoevaluatetheriskofinjuries,assistinginthepreventionandtreatment process.Objective: Verify cheerleaders athletes’ level of correlation betweenthe performance of YBalance and Side Hop tests, and the range of motion ofdorsiflexion. Methodology: 72 male and female cheerleading athletes were selected, whom musthave practicedcheerleadingatleastforayear.Theathletesweredividedintwogroups:Female group (n=38) and male group (n=34). All athletes were evaluated in terms of theperformance inthefunctionaltests,YBalanceandSideHop,andmeasuringtheankledorsiflexionusing theWeight-BearingLungetestbymeansoftheiHandLevelsoftware.Fortheanalysiswas evaluatedthedominantlowerlimb.Foralltestswereheldthreemeasuresandcomputedthe averageforstatisticalanalysis.Therelationbetweenthegroups,femaleandmale,wasmade usingthet-Studenttestforindependentsample,andthecorrelationgivenbythePearson's correlationtest(r),beingconsideredasexcellentrhigherthan0.6.Forbothtests,p≤0.05 wasconsideredsignificancelevel.Results: In the comparison between the functional tests groups,female group presented theworse performance only in SideHop Test.In relation to the correlation, for both groups were verified a correlation between dorsiflexion andall directions of YBalance (r between 0.35 and 0.67). Conclusion: The amplitude of dorsiflexion affects the cheerleaders’ performance of YBalance Test. There fore,improve dorsiflexion’s amplitude could raise the performance of YBalanceTest.