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- Title
Hip Muscle Strength, Range of Motion, and Functional Performance in Young Elite Male Australian Football Players.
- Authors
Girdwood, Michael; Mentiplay, Benjamin F.; Scholes, Mark J.; Heerey, Joshua J.; Crossley, Kay M.; O'Brien, Michael J. M.; Perraton, Zuzana; Shawdon, Anik; Kemp, Joanne L.
- Abstract
Context: Hip and groin injuries are common in field sports such as football, with measurement of hip strength and range of motion (ROM) recommended for assessment of these conditions. We aimed to report hip strength, hip ROM, and functional task performance in young elite Australian football athletes. Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: Fifty-eight newly drafted Australian Football League athletes completed hip abduction, adduction, internal rotation, external rotation, and flexion strength testing with an adjustable stabilized or hand-held dynamometer. Hip internal rotation and external rotation, bent knee fall out, and ankle dorsiflexion ROM were also measured. Players completed hop for distance, side bridge, and star excursion balance functional tests. We compared findings between the dominant and nondominant limbs. Results: We found small deficits unlikely to be clinically meaningful in the dominant limb for hip abduction and adduction strength, and a small deficit in the nondominant limb for external rotation strength and side bridge time. Athletes had lower hip internal rotation (mean difference 2.56°; 95% confidence interval, 0.87 to 4.26) and total rotation ROM (2.03°; 95% confidence interval, 0.06 to 4.01) on the dominant limb. Conclusions: There were no meaningful differences between dominant and nondominant limbs for hip strength, ROM, or functional tests. Our results may be used for benchmarking young male Australian football athletes when targeting optimal strength and returning from injury.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN football players; HIP joint physiology; CROSS-sectional method; TASK performance; RESEARCH funding; AUSTRALIAN football; FUNCTIONAL status; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MUSCLE strength; ATHLETIC ability; EXERCISE tests; CONFIDENCE intervals; DATA analysis software; RANGE of motion of joints; MUSCLE contraction
- Publication
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 8, p910
- ISSN
1056-6716
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/jsr.2022-0450