Warm-Up Improves Balance Control Differently in the Dominant and Non-Dominant Leg in Young Sportsmen According to Their Experience in Asymmetric or Symmetric Sports

Brighenti, Alfredo; Noé, Frédéric; Stella, Federico; Schena, Federico; Mourot, Laurent

doi:10.3390/ijerph19084562

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Warm-Up Improves Balance Control Differently in the Dominant and Non-Dominant Leg in Young Sportsmen According to Their Experience in Asymmetric or Symmetric Sports

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Alfredo Brighenti

^1,2,3,

Frédéric Noé

⁴

,

Federico Stella

²,

Federico Schena

^2,3

and

Laurent Mourot

^1,5,*

¹

EA3920 Prognostic Factors and Regulatory Factors of Cardiac and Vascular Pathologies, Exercise Performance Health Innovation (EPHI) Platform, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France

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CeRiSM, Sport Mountain and Health Research Centre, University of Verona, 38068 Rovereto, Italy

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Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, 37131 Verona, Italy

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Laboratoire Mouvement, Equilibre, Performance et Santé (EA 4445), Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour/E2S UPPA, 65000 Tarbes, France

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Division for Physical Education, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634040 Tomsk, Russia

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(8), 4562; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084562

Submission received: 29 January 2022 / Revised: 3 April 2022 / Accepted: 6 April 2022 / Published: 10 April 2022

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the acute effects of a warm-up on balance control and inter-limb balance asymmetries by analyzing the influence of the nature of the sport practiced by participants. Twelve sportspeople were recruited. They had to stand on a force plate for 30 s in a one-leg stance on their dominant (used to perform skilled movements) and non-dominant leg (used to support the body) before and 2, 5, 10, 15 and 20 min after a 10 min warm-up exercise performed at moderate intensity on a cycle ergometer. The center of foot pressure displacements was recorded. Statistical analysis was performed by considering one group of all participants and with two subgroups according to the symmetrical or asymmetrical nature of the sport they practiced. The warm-up exercise improved acute balance control only on the dominant leg after a 20 min rest without significantly reducing inter-limb balance asymmetries. This effect was more characteristic of participants with experience in asymmetric sports. These results confirm previous findings of the greater sensitivity of the dominant leg to the physiological state and reveal that between-leg differences in balance control appear mainly in subjects with experience in asymmetric sports in a specific physiological condition (post-warm-up state).

Keywords: acute exercise; posture; cerebral dominance; motor control laterality; postural asymmetry factor

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Brighenti, A.; Noé, F.; Stella, F.; Schena, F.; Mourot, L. Warm-Up Improves Balance Control Differently in the Dominant and Non-Dominant Leg in Young Sportsmen According to Their Experience in Asymmetric or Symmetric Sports. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 4562. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084562

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Brighenti A, Noé F, Stella F, Schena F, Mourot L. Warm-Up Improves Balance Control Differently in the Dominant and Non-Dominant Leg in Young Sportsmen According to Their Experience in Asymmetric or Symmetric Sports. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(8):4562. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084562

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Brighenti, Alfredo, Frédéric Noé, Federico Stella, Federico Schena, and Laurent Mourot. 2022. "Warm-Up Improves Balance Control Differently in the Dominant and Non-Dominant Leg in Young Sportsmen According to Their Experience in Asymmetric or Symmetric Sports" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 8: 4562. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084562

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Brighenti, A., Noé, F., Stella, F., Schena, F., & Mourot, L. (2022). Warm-Up Improves Balance Control Differently in the Dominant and Non-Dominant Leg in Young Sportsmen According to Their Experience in Asymmetric or Symmetric Sports. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(8), 4562. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084562

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