Morphologic Bilateral Differences of Top Level Gymnasts

Gymnastics is a basic sport, which was developed under a philosophic idea "Mens sana in corpore sano". Such an idea supposes harmonized body and soul. We can also understand under such a terminus the symmetricity of the athletic body. Aim of our investigation was to determine whether gymna...

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Autores principales: Cuk,Ivan, Pajek,Maja Bucar, Jakse,Barbara, Pajek,Jernej, Pecek,Mojca
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spelling oai:scielo:S0717-950220120001000192012-06-08Morphologic Bilateral Differences of Top Level GymnastsCuk,IvanPajek,Maja BucarJakse,BarbaraPajek,JernejPecek,Mojca Anthropometrics Bilateral differences Male Artistic gymnastics Gymnastics is a basic sport, which was developed under a philosophic idea "Mens sana in corpore sano". Such an idea supposes harmonized body and soul. We can also understand under such a terminus the symmetricity of the athletic body. Aim of our investigation was to determine whether gymnast's body is symmetric. On the sample of 40 top level gymnasts (average age of 23 years) who were attending World Cup Competition in Ljubljana in the year 2000 we measured 13 anthropometric characteristics ­ joint diameters, circumferences and skinfold thicknesses on the left and right side. While there were no differences between the left and right leg parameters, there were some significant differences between the left and right arm measures. We found significant differences in elbow diameter, circumference of forearm, and skin fold thicknesses of triceps and biceps brachii. It is beneficial for coaches to control the symmetry of their athletes as the differences may be a sign of single-sided arm overload and predict acute or chronic injuries.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Chilena de AnatomíaInternational Journal of Morphology v.30 n.1 20122012-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022012000100019en10.4067/S0717-95022012000100019
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topic Anthropometrics
Bilateral differences
Male
Artistic gymnastics
spellingShingle Anthropometrics
Bilateral differences
Male
Artistic gymnastics
Cuk,Ivan
Pajek,Maja Bucar
Jakse,Barbara
Pajek,Jernej
Pecek,Mojca
Morphologic Bilateral Differences of Top Level Gymnasts
description Gymnastics is a basic sport, which was developed under a philosophic idea "Mens sana in corpore sano". Such an idea supposes harmonized body and soul. We can also understand under such a terminus the symmetricity of the athletic body. Aim of our investigation was to determine whether gymnast's body is symmetric. On the sample of 40 top level gymnasts (average age of 23 years) who were attending World Cup Competition in Ljubljana in the year 2000 we measured 13 anthropometric characteristics ­ joint diameters, circumferences and skinfold thicknesses on the left and right side. While there were no differences between the left and right leg parameters, there were some significant differences between the left and right arm measures. We found significant differences in elbow diameter, circumference of forearm, and skin fold thicknesses of triceps and biceps brachii. It is beneficial for coaches to control the symmetry of their athletes as the differences may be a sign of single-sided arm overload and predict acute or chronic injuries.
author Cuk,Ivan
Pajek,Maja Bucar
Jakse,Barbara
Pajek,Jernej
Pecek,Mojca
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Pajek,Maja Bucar
Jakse,Barbara
Pajek,Jernej
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title Morphologic Bilateral Differences of Top Level Gymnasts
title_short Morphologic Bilateral Differences of Top Level Gymnasts
title_full Morphologic Bilateral Differences of Top Level Gymnasts
title_fullStr Morphologic Bilateral Differences of Top Level Gymnasts
title_full_unstemmed Morphologic Bilateral Differences of Top Level Gymnasts
title_sort morphologic bilateral differences of top level gymnasts
publisher Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía
publishDate 2012
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