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- Title
Body Composition Symmetry in Aircraft Pilots.
- Authors
Curiel-Regueros, Agustín; Ardigò, Luca Paolo; Bustamante-Sánchez, Álvaro; Tornero-Aguilera, José Francisco; Fuentes-García, Juan Pedro; Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyze the body composition symmetry in upper and lower body segments of aircrafts pilots. To reach the study aim, body composition in upper and lower body segments of 206 male aircraft pilots of the Spanish Army (23.1 ± 6.87 years) and 105 civilians (24.0 ± 6.29 years) were evaluated by a bioimpedance analyser (InBody 720, Biospace Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea). Aircraft pilots presented a tendency to dysmetria in upper and lower body segments, showing fitter values in the protagonist side when performing flight functions. Dysmetria could be detrimental during flight manoeuvres and produce injuries in aircraft pilots. It would be recommended to design specific training protocols to improve this imbalance.
- Subjects
SEOUL (Korea); BODY composition; ADIPOSE tissues; SYMMETRY; LEAN body mass
- Publication
Symmetry (20738994), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 2, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2073-8994
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/sym14020356