Walking Backwards Improves High School Female Athletes Balance

Backward walking training improves balance in school-aged boys

BACKGROUND Falls remain a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. It is suggested that backward walking (BW) may offer some benefits especially in balance and motor control ability beyond those experienced through forward walking (FW), and may be a potential intervention for prevention of falls. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of BW on balance in boys. MET...

Injury Prevention for High School Female Cross-Country Athletes

In High School Athletes

Accepted, February 18, 2005. OBJECTIVE: To identify enduring prolonged neuropsychological effects of cerebral concussion in high school youth athletes. METHODS: High school athletes (n 223) underwent baseline neuropsychological evaluation between 1999 and 2000, assigned to independent groups on the basis of concussion history: athletes with no concussion history or present medical and/or neurop...

Neuromuscular training improves performance on the star excursion balance test in young female athletes.

STUDY DESIGN Controlled cohort repeated-measures experimental design. OBJECTIVES To determine if a neuromuscular training program (NMTP) focused on core stability and lower extremity strength would affect performance on the star excursion balance test (SEBT). We hypothesized that NMTP would improve SEBT performance in the experimental group and there would be no side-to-side differences in ei...

High school athletes and concussions.