Muscle strength and anaerobic performance in football players with cerebral palsy

Yanci, Javier, Castagna, Carlo, Los Arcos, Asier, Santalla, Alfredo, Grande Rodriguez, Ignacio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-5457, Figueroa, Joaquin and Cámara, Jesús (2016). Muscle strength and anaerobic performance in football players with cerebral palsy. "Disability And Health Journal", v. 9 (n. 2); pp. 313-319. ISSN 1936-6574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2015.11.003.

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Title: Muscle strength and anaerobic performance in football players with cerebral palsy
Author/s:
  • Yanci, Javier
  • Castagna, Carlo
  • Los Arcos, Asier
  • Santalla, Alfredo
  • Grande Rodriguez, Ignacio https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-5457
  • Figueroa, Joaquin
  • Cámara, Jesús
Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: Disability And Health Journal
Date: April 2016
ISSN: 1936-6574
Volume: 9
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: Physical impairment; Muscle function; Vertical jump; Physical performance; Wingate test
Faculty: Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte (INEF) (UPM)
Department: Deportes
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: This is the first study that quantified the anaerobic performance in football players with cerebral palsy (CP). OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine anaerobic fitness in a population of football players with CP using vertical jumping (VJ) and Wingate tests.

METHODS: Twelve players (age 26.8 ± 4.8 yr, body mass 66.2 ± 4.8 kg, height 173.7 ± 6.4 cm, body mass index 22.2 ± 1.9 kg m(-2)) from the Spanish National Football Team with CP which had 9.4 ± 3.7 years of playing experience performed the VJ and Wingate anaerobic tests.

RESULTS: Vertical jump height was 20.0 ± 1.2 cm for squat jump (HSJ) and 23.9 ± 5.4 cm for countermovement jump (HCMJ). Wingate test peak power (PPOW) was 490.6 ± 125.8 W (7.35 ± 1.53 W kg(-1)). HCMJ was largely (r = -0.631, p = 0.028) and very-largely (r = -0.710, p = 0.01) associated with PPOW (W kg(-1)) and mean power output (MPOW) (W kg(-1)), respectively. Squat jump test peak power (W) showed a large association (r = -0.656, p = 0.021) with MPOW (W and W kg(-1)). The CMJ height resulted 19.5% higher than SJ.

CONCLUSIONS: Results showed low VJ and anaerobic capacity of football players with CP compared to national players without CP and the general population. In football players with CP the difference (19.5%) between VJ with or without countermovement (CMJ-SJ) was higher than reported for national players without CP. Further studies examining the effect of football practice on neuromuscular performance in subjects with CP are warranted.

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Item ID: 61158
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/61158/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:61158
DOI: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2015.11.003
Official URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 27 Oct 2020 09:00
Last Modified: 23 Nov 2022 09:11
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