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The effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children
Fundamental movement skill (FMS) proficiency does not develop solely due to maturation, but also via diverse perceptual-motor experiences across childhood. Practicing gymnastics has been shown to improve postural control. The purpose of the present study was to examine potential changes to postural...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9399810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36033080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.936680 |
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description | Fundamental movement skill (FMS) proficiency does not develop solely due to maturation, but also via diverse perceptual-motor experiences across childhood. Practicing gymnastics has been shown to improve postural control. The purpose of the present study was to examine potential changes to postural control of children following a course of educational gymnastics. Two groups of children both completed 20 × 45-min physical education (PE) lessons; one group (n = 43, age = 6.4 ± 0.7, 56% male) completed educational gymnastics lessons in school delivered by a professional coach, the other group completed their typical PE classes (n = 18, age = 6.5 ± 0.3, 33% male). Unipedal balancing performance was assessed by calculating the percentage of successful trials made. Postural sway dynamics were explored by calculating center-of-pressure sample entropy, 95% ellipse sway area and sway velocity. Measurements were taken before the lessons began and immediately after the lessons were completed. The gymnastics group performed better than the typical PE group at unipedal balancing. Females outperformed males in both groups. Males made different changes to postural control (i.e., increased sway regularity and improved stability) compared to females across 3 months. Educational gymnastics enabled children in a critical period of development to make more rapid improvements to postural performance and control. Novel movement experiences, like those offered by educational gymnastics, may have a positive influence on postural control and importantly, physical literacy. Future work should examine how sex effects the development of postural control strategies in young children. |
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spelling | pubmed-93998102022-08-25 The effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children Anderson, Neil Button, Chris Lamb, Peter Front Psychol Psychology Fundamental movement skill (FMS) proficiency does not develop solely due to maturation, but also via diverse perceptual-motor experiences across childhood. Practicing gymnastics has been shown to improve postural control. The purpose of the present study was to examine potential changes to postural control of children following a course of educational gymnastics. Two groups of children both completed 20 × 45-min physical education (PE) lessons; one group (n = 43, age = 6.4 ± 0.7, 56% male) completed educational gymnastics lessons in school delivered by a professional coach, the other group completed their typical PE classes (n = 18, age = 6.5 ± 0.3, 33% male). Unipedal balancing performance was assessed by calculating the percentage of successful trials made. Postural sway dynamics were explored by calculating center-of-pressure sample entropy, 95% ellipse sway area and sway velocity. Measurements were taken before the lessons began and immediately after the lessons were completed. The gymnastics group performed better than the typical PE group at unipedal balancing. Females outperformed males in both groups. Males made different changes to postural control (i.e., increased sway regularity and improved stability) compared to females across 3 months. Educational gymnastics enabled children in a critical period of development to make more rapid improvements to postural performance and control. Novel movement experiences, like those offered by educational gymnastics, may have a positive influence on postural control and importantly, physical literacy. Future work should examine how sex effects the development of postural control strategies in young children. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9399810/ /pubmed/36033080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.936680 Text en Copyright © 2022 Anderson, Button and Lamb. https://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 | Psychology Anderson, Neil Button, Chris Lamb, Peter The effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children |
title | The effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children |
title_full | The effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children |
title_fullStr | The effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children |
title_short | The effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children |
title_sort | effect of educational gymnastics on postural control of young children |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9399810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36033080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.936680 |
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