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Differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this paper was to examine differences in ball release speed and throwing kinematics between male and female team-handball players in a standing throw with run-up. Other research has shown that this throwing type produces the highest ball release speeds and comparing groups...

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Autores principales: Serrien, Ben, Clijsen, Ron, Blondeel, Jonathan, Goossens, Maggy, Baeyens, Jean-Pierre
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4652456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26587236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-015-0021-x
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author Serrien, Ben
Clijsen, Ron
Blondeel, Jonathan
Goossens, Maggy
Baeyens, Jean-Pierre
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Blondeel, Jonathan
Goossens, Maggy
Baeyens, Jean-Pierre
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description BACKGROUND: The purpose of this paper was to examine differences in ball release speed and throwing kinematics between male and female team-handball players in a standing throw with run-up. Other research has shown that this throwing type produces the highest ball release speeds and comparing groups with differences in ball release speed can suggest where this difference might come from. If throwing technique differs, perhaps gender-specific coordination- and strength-training guidelines are in order. METHODS: Measurements of three-dimensional kinematics were performed with a seven-camera VICON motion capture system and subsequent joint angles and angular velocities calculations were executed in Mathcad. Data-analysis with Statistical Parametric Mapping allowed us to examine the entire time-series of every variable without having to reduce the data to certain scalar values such as minima/maxima extracted from the time-series. RESULTS: Statistical Parametric Mapping enabled us to detect several differences in the throwing kinematics (12 out of 20 variables had one or more differences somewhere during the motion). The results indicated two distinct strategies in generating and transferring momentum through the kinematic chain. Male team-handball players showed more activity in the transverse plane (pelvis and trunk rotation and shoulder horizontal abduction) whereas female team-handball players showed more activity in the sagital plane (trunk flexion). Also the arm cocking maneuver was quite different. CONCLUSIONS: The observed differences between male and female team handball players in the motions of pelvis, trunk and throwing arm can be important information for coaches to give feedback to athletes. Whether these differences contribute to the observed difference in ball release speed is at the present unclear and more research on the relation with anthropometric profile needs to be done. Kinematic differences might suggest gender-specific training guidelines in team-handball.
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spelling pubmed-46524562015-11-20 Differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up Serrien, Ben Clijsen, Ron Blondeel, Jonathan Goossens, Maggy Baeyens, Jean-Pierre BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil Research Article BACKGROUND: The purpose of this paper was to examine differences in ball release speed and throwing kinematics between male and female team-handball players in a standing throw with run-up. Other research has shown that this throwing type produces the highest ball release speeds and comparing groups with differences in ball release speed can suggest where this difference might come from. If throwing technique differs, perhaps gender-specific coordination- and strength-training guidelines are in order. METHODS: Measurements of three-dimensional kinematics were performed with a seven-camera VICON motion capture system and subsequent joint angles and angular velocities calculations were executed in Mathcad. Data-analysis with Statistical Parametric Mapping allowed us to examine the entire time-series of every variable without having to reduce the data to certain scalar values such as minima/maxima extracted from the time-series. RESULTS: Statistical Parametric Mapping enabled us to detect several differences in the throwing kinematics (12 out of 20 variables had one or more differences somewhere during the motion). The results indicated two distinct strategies in generating and transferring momentum through the kinematic chain. Male team-handball players showed more activity in the transverse plane (pelvis and trunk rotation and shoulder horizontal abduction) whereas female team-handball players showed more activity in the sagital plane (trunk flexion). Also the arm cocking maneuver was quite different. CONCLUSIONS: The observed differences between male and female team handball players in the motions of pelvis, trunk and throwing arm can be important information for coaches to give feedback to athletes. Whether these differences contribute to the observed difference in ball release speed is at the present unclear and more research on the relation with anthropometric profile needs to be done. Kinematic differences might suggest gender-specific training guidelines in team-handball. BioMed Central 2015-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4652456/ /pubmed/26587236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-015-0021-x Text en © Serrien et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Clijsen, Ron
Blondeel, Jonathan
Goossens, Maggy
Baeyens, Jean-Pierre
Differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up
title Differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up
title_full Differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up
title_fullStr Differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up
title_full_unstemmed Differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up
title_short Differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up
title_sort differences in ball speed and three-dimensional kinematics between male and female handball players during a standing throw with run-up
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4652456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26587236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-015-0021-x
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