Showing papers in "Human Movement Science in 2019"

TL;DR: This work exemplifies how data sampled from a high-performance team sport setting could underpin innovative methodologies to support practitioners in designing representative training activities, and highlights how the use of principles grounded within ecological dynamics, along with data from performance analytics, could suggest contemporary models of coaching and preparation for performance in elite sport.

TL;DR: Results revealed a significant interaction between proprioceptive and visual feedback on letter size, pen speed and legibility, regardless of participants' age, and reducing the visual and proprioception feedback had a greater effect on the children's handwriting performances than on those of adults.

TL;DR: Results showed a minimal degree of cognitive flexibility for highly specialized Strikers and a maximum level for Mixed, allowing thus to highlight specific profiles of athletes, and indicate the possibility to develop a test assessing the executive domain during the recruitment in a team.

TL;DR: The results suggest that passive muscle stiffness is not associated with muscle force; however, higher passive Muscle Shear modulus at a given joint angle may contribute to rapid force production.

TL;DR: FR improved knee flexion ROM without altering passive stiffness, but modified the perception of stretch as well as the mobility of the deep layer of the fascia lata.

TL;DR: It is found that the majority of the soft tissue work during early stance was due to deformation of the foot and shoe, and the percentage of work did not vary significantly with speed but did varied significantly with slope.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the challenges and demands inherent in any motor task influence the magnitude of the motor-EFs link, and difficult motor tasks require EFs more substantially than easy motor tasks.

TL;DR: Integrating postural sway and LOS parameters provides valid fall risk prediction and a holistic analysis of postural stability and future work should establish normative values and evaluate clinical utility of these measures.

TL;DR: This study provides some of the first evidence of how sensory couplings support multi-person coordination in a large group, and in particular the effect of body contact on this coordination.

TL;DR: Bi-hemispheric a-tDCS worsens performance of taekwondo athletes, and the effect remains present even 1 h after the stimulation.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the attentional foci induced by different practice schedules might be at least partially responsible for the learning differences.

TL;DR: Understanding of key constraints interactions, and prevalence during competitive performance, can be used to inform representative learning designs in athlete training programmes, supporting the specification of information in training designs, representative of different performance levels.

TL;DR: The reproducibility and the Minimum Detectable Change (MDC) for gait parameters in stance and swing measured using 3D-gait analysis are defined and use of the MDC will allow clinicians to more accurately determine the effect of treatments.

TL;DR: Both common and specific gait patterns in people with amputation are identified, either regardless of, or according to their level of amputation and the type of prosthetic component.

TL;DR: Results indicate a subgroup-dependent variability in response to non-invasive brain stimulation applied during the performance of motor tasks in PD, which warrants future studies to examine tDCS as an adjuvant tool for training programs aimed to reduce motor deficits related to freezing.

TL;DR: The results suggest emotional states influence gait behavior during music listening and that such effects are altered by familiarity with music, with implications for using music to enhance motor performance in clinical and performance settings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a novel paradigm, aimed at emulating the early stage of handwriting learning in proficient writers, by asking them to produce a familiar shape through a novel (unfamiliar) motor plan.

TL;DR: Although predictive mechanisms may be similar in imagination and execution, the full extent of deviation from optimal performance is not predicted, and deviations from optimalperformance were lower in estimated than in actual performance.

TL;DR: Prolonged PL latency and altered ankle kinematics suggests reduced frontal plane ankle stabilization in CAI, however, similar motor control strategies were utilized in both groups during the ankle inversion perturbations.

TL;DR: Results from the delayed learning measures and motivational and informational perspectives suggest that informational processes contribute more to the self-controlled feedback learning advantage, relative to motivational contributions.

TL;DR: There is room to consider implementing gait analysis into the physical examination of patients with anxiety, as well as muscle strength, balance, and mobility function, because of the existence of differences between people with anxiety and healthy individuals.

TL;DR: The findings show that the natural act of looking to the same feature in the environment as a function of visual viewing distance can lead to quantitative and qualitative changes in the dynamics of posture, consistent with the view that postural facilitation and information availability are integrated in the perceptual-motor dynamics.

TL;DR: There are differences in the gait performance of older adults from different age groups for usual and fast gait speeds, which is more evident regarding gait speed and step length variables.

TL;DR: The results of this study can be used as an indicative reference for early detection of AD or aMCI, an objective evaluation for the effectiveness of interventions, and an assessment of disease progression.

TL;DR: There is the need for better descriptions of the methods used to obtain shoulder kinematics and for studies investigating shoulder kinetics in handball throwing to identify gaps in the current research.

TL;DR: The results suggest that training load decreases when swimmers swim at the same velocities while using hand paddles, which could prove useful for coaches and swimmers when using hand paddle for training.

TL;DR: It is highlighted that shoulder abduction performed with scapular protraction and in combination withScapular elevation leads to increased activity of the middle deltoid and upper trapezius, resulting in imbalances between the scapulothoracic muscles that could hamper the optimalScapulohumeral rhythm.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that coordination and coordination variability is generally stable in the range of ±15% around of preferred speed in recreational runners.

TL;DR: The results show that people can couple the complex dynamics of body sway with complex imposed motion, and that differences in the nature of this coupling are related to the risk of motion sickness.

TL;DR: It is concluded that social difficulties in the DCD-only group are not due to lack of empathy, but may be driven by an accumulation of external factors, and the presence of ADHD and/or ASD.