Limb, Sex, and Anthropometric Factors Influencing Normative Data for the Biodex Balance System SD Athlete Single Leg Stability Test

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-30-2012

Publication Title

Athletic Training and Sports Health Care

DOI

10.3928/19425864-20130827-02

ISSN

1942-5864

Abstract

Revisions to the Biodex Stability System made the normative data for healthy participants reported in the literature incompatible with the revised Biodex Balance System SD. In addition, this investigation aimed to conduct sex and limb performance comparisons and to examine the relationships between test performance and height, body mass, and body mass index. Healthy men (n = 50) and women (n = 59), aged 18 to 35 years, completed three 10-second test trials of the Athlete Single Leg Stability test using both limbs at platform stability level 4. The overall anterior–posterior and medial–lateral stability indices were averaged across 3 trials. Results demonstrated significantly (P < .05) better stability in women compared with men and when standing on the nondominant limb compared with the dominant limb. Due to discrepancies between the anthropometric and performance relationships revealed between the sexes, further investigation is needed to understand influences on Biodex Balance System SD single-leg test performance.

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