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Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Postural Sway of Recreationally Active Older Adults vs. Master Road Runners

Trunk muscle strength and control is an important prerequisite for everyday activities among elderly people decreasing the predisposition to falls. High levels of physical exercise performed by older athletes could offer benefits to core/trunk muscle strength and postural control compared with recre...

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Autores principales: Taveira, Henrique V., de Lira, Claudio A. B., Andrade, Marilia S., Viana, Ricardo B., Tanaka, Hirofumi, Hill, Lee, Nikolaidis, Pantelis T., Knechtle, Beat, Rosemann, Thomas, Vancini, Rodrigo L.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815138
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.623150
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author Taveira, Henrique V.
de Lira, Claudio A. B.
Andrade, Marilia S.
Viana, Ricardo B.
Tanaka, Hirofumi
Hill, Lee
Nikolaidis, Pantelis T.
Knechtle, Beat
Rosemann, Thomas
Vancini, Rodrigo L.
author_facet Taveira, Henrique V.
de Lira, Claudio A. B.
Andrade, Marilia S.
Viana, Ricardo B.
Tanaka, Hirofumi
Hill, Lee
Nikolaidis, Pantelis T.
Knechtle, Beat
Rosemann, Thomas
Vancini, Rodrigo L.
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description Trunk muscle strength and control is an important prerequisite for everyday activities among elderly people decreasing the predisposition to falls. High levels of physical exercise performed by older athletes could offer benefits to core/trunk muscle strength and postural control compared with recreational physical activities and among elderly people with lower levels of physical activity. The present study aimed to compare trunk muscle strength and postural control of older running athletes vs. older physically active adults. Participants were master road runners (RUN, n = 15, six women, 64.3 ± 3.6 years) and physically active elderly (control group, CON, n = 15, six women, 65.4 ± 5.0 years) people that were submitted to the evaluations: esthesiometer, posturography (force plate), and isokinetic test (Biodex dynamometer) of trunk muscle extension and flexion. RUN presented higher values for relative peak torque of trunk extensor muscles at 60°/s (p = 0.046) and 180°/s (p = 0.007) and relative average power during trunk extension at 60°/s (p = 0.008) and 180°/s (p = 0.004) compared to CON. CON had a higher medial-lateral oscillation speed of the center of pressure in the stable condition with eyes closed (p = 0.004) compared to RUN. RUN presented higher isokinetic torque of extensor trunk muscles and better postural control than CON. This supposedly could help with postural control and balance and contribute to the prevention of falls among the elderly. The practice of running systematically by master athletes may partially explained our findings.
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spelling pubmed-80127682021-04-02 Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Postural Sway of Recreationally Active Older Adults vs. Master Road Runners Taveira, Henrique V. de Lira, Claudio A. B. Andrade, Marilia S. Viana, Ricardo B. Tanaka, Hirofumi Hill, Lee Nikolaidis, Pantelis T. Knechtle, Beat Rosemann, Thomas Vancini, Rodrigo L. Front Physiol Physiology Trunk muscle strength and control is an important prerequisite for everyday activities among elderly people decreasing the predisposition to falls. High levels of physical exercise performed by older athletes could offer benefits to core/trunk muscle strength and postural control compared with recreational physical activities and among elderly people with lower levels of physical activity. The present study aimed to compare trunk muscle strength and postural control of older running athletes vs. older physically active adults. Participants were master road runners (RUN, n = 15, six women, 64.3 ± 3.6 years) and physically active elderly (control group, CON, n = 15, six women, 65.4 ± 5.0 years) people that were submitted to the evaluations: esthesiometer, posturography (force plate), and isokinetic test (Biodex dynamometer) of trunk muscle extension and flexion. RUN presented higher values for relative peak torque of trunk extensor muscles at 60°/s (p = 0.046) and 180°/s (p = 0.007) and relative average power during trunk extension at 60°/s (p = 0.008) and 180°/s (p = 0.004) compared to CON. CON had a higher medial-lateral oscillation speed of the center of pressure in the stable condition with eyes closed (p = 0.004) compared to RUN. RUN presented higher isokinetic torque of extensor trunk muscles and better postural control than CON. This supposedly could help with postural control and balance and contribute to the prevention of falls among the elderly. The practice of running systematically by master athletes may partially explained our findings. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8012768/ /pubmed/33815138 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.623150 Text en Copyright © 2021 Taveira, de Lira, Andrade, Viana, Tanaka, Hill, Nikolaidis, Knechtle, Rosemann and Vancini. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Physiology
Taveira, Henrique V.
de Lira, Claudio A. B.
Andrade, Marilia S.
Viana, Ricardo B.
Tanaka, Hirofumi
Hill, Lee
Nikolaidis, Pantelis T.
Knechtle, Beat
Rosemann, Thomas
Vancini, Rodrigo L.
Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Postural Sway of Recreationally Active Older Adults vs. Master Road Runners
title Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Postural Sway of Recreationally Active Older Adults vs. Master Road Runners
title_full Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Postural Sway of Recreationally Active Older Adults vs. Master Road Runners
title_fullStr Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Postural Sway of Recreationally Active Older Adults vs. Master Road Runners
title_full_unstemmed Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Postural Sway of Recreationally Active Older Adults vs. Master Road Runners
title_short Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Postural Sway of Recreationally Active Older Adults vs. Master Road Runners
title_sort isokinetic muscle strength and postural sway of recreationally active older adults vs. master road runners
topic Physiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815138
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.623150
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