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Abstract available in the Medicine and Sciences in Sports and Exercise.

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Title: Postural stability of elite sportswomen - cross-sectional study Objectives: The aim of this work is to describe and evaluate postural stability in elite women's categories of selected sports specializations. a partial goal is to find out and compare selected parameters of static postural stability of football and volleyball players, both from the perspective of different age categories and from the point of view of the given sports specialization. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study involving a total of 278 female athletes (67 volleyball players, 211 football players) aged 14 and over. Footscan Balance desk (RSscan International, Belgium) was used to measure static postural stability. Tests were used: narrow stand open eyes, narrow stand closed eyes, stand on right lower limb, stand on left lower limb. The results of individual tests were statistically processed and compared. Statistical evaluation was performed using two way ANOVA test, type III and post-hoc Scheffe test. Statistical significance was determined to be p ≤ 0.05. Results: The results of the study showed that footballers have a better level of postural stability compared to volleyball players, and a significant difference was found in all four tests (p < 0.05). In terms of age category, youth players generally have better...

The object of the study is young women's volleyball players' psychomotoric reaction. The work problem - the psychomotoric reaction changes in one-year workout cycle of young women's volleyball players - is being seen now as a rather new and almost unexplored both in theory and practice. The purpose of the work is to explore possibilities of establishing and developing psychomotoric factors of young women's volleyball players in one-year workout cycle. In order to solve this problem, the following tasks were set: · To explore motion velocity factors of young women's volleyball players right and left hands, depending on the complexity of exercises; · To compare specific features both of right and left hand psychomotoric reactions of the young women's volleyball players; · To evaluate changes in response time and motion velocity during one-year workout cycle. · To evaluate strategies of motion performance in respect of velocity. We have carried out a study with players from the Lithuanian young women's volleyball players' team who are preparing themselves for the European Volleyball Championship of the year 2007. In the first study, there were 17 members of the Lithuanian young women's volleyball players' team who participated in this research, and in the second study - 15 members. The age of young players ranges from 15 to 16 years. The average age of persons under the study (young women's volleyball players) during the first stage of the study is that of 15.58±0.12 years. The... [to full text]