Performance and Kinematic Differences in Putting Between Healthy and Disabled Elite Golfers

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11510%2F17%3A10370246" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11510/17:10370246 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hukin-2017-0113" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hukin-2017-0113</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hukin-2017-0113" target="_blank" >10.1515/hukin-2017-0113</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Performance and Kinematic Differences in Putting Between Healthy and Disabled Elite Golfers

Original language description

Golfers with disability are limited in the execution of the full golf swing, but their performance in putting may be comparable because this stroke does not demand significant strength, balance and range of motion. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare putting performance, kinetic and kinematic consistency between golfers with different disabilities and healthy athletes. The participants consisted of three disabled athletes (perinatal cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, below knee lower limb amputee) and three healthy golfers (age 34 +/- 4.5 years, body height 178 +/- 3.3 cm, body mass 83 +/- 6.2 kg). The golfers&apos; movements were recorded by active 3D markers for kinematic analyses; the subjects performed 10 trials of a 6 m putting task while standing on separate force platforms placed under each lower limb. Putting performance was measured by the distance of the final ball position to the centre of the hole. ANOVA analyses did not show any differences in clubhead speed and total ball distance from the hole. The consistency of those two parameters expressed by the coefficient of variation (CV) was CV = 0.5% or better in both groups for clubhead speed and ranged from CV = 0.40 to 0.61% in healthy and CV = 0.21 to 0.55% in disabled athletes for total error distance. The main effect ANOVA showed differences in weight shift, hip and shoulder kinematics (p &lt; 0.05) between healthy players and all players with disability. All disabled athletes shifted their weight toward the healthy side (towards the healthy lower limb) and alternated the end of the swing. The player with below knee amputation had the lowest range of motion in the shoulder joint during the putting stroke. The players with perinatal cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis had the largest range of motion in the hips. Putting performance of disabled golfers was similar to healthy athletes. During training of disabled players, coaches should pay attention to the specificity of a particular disability when focused on putting performance. However, individual technique should achieve the same consistency as observed in healthy players.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Human Kinetics

ISSN

1640-5544

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

60

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

233-241

UT code for WoS article

000418922200025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85040126212