title: Is There a Correlation Between Static and Dynamic Postural Balance Among Young Male and Female Dancers?
abstract: Aimed to investigate whether young male and female dancers have different patterns of association between static and dynamic postural balance (PB), 60 dancers from the Australian Ballet School (14-19 years old) were tested for static and dynamic PB with head and lumbar accelerometers. Monotonic relationships between static and dynamic PB were found in head movements among young female dancers in all three directions, but were found for young male dancers in the mediolateral (ML) and anteroposterior (AP) directions only. In lumbar movements, monotonic relationships were found for young female dancers in the AP direction only. Comparing head with lumbar movements in static PB, young male dancers demonstrated monotonic relationships between head and lumbar movements in all 3 directions; however, young female dancers demonstrated monotonic relationships in the AP direction only. In the dynamic measurements, both male and female dancers demonstrated monotonic relationships between head and lumbar movements for all parameters measured in the ML and vertical directions (p < .05). In conclusions, among female dancers static PB ability is correlated with their dynamic ability, whereas among male dancers, no relationship between the static and dynamic PB in the AP direction exists. Male dancers showed head and lumbar coordination in the static PB movement, but both genders manifested no head and lumbar coordination in the AP direction measured for dynamic PB.
authors.affiliation: a Gait and Balance Research Group, College of Sport and Exercise Science , Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University , Melbourne , Australia.|b The Wingate College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the Wingate Institute , Netanya , Israel.
authors.forename: Nili
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Steinberg
authors.affiliation: c Faculty of Health , Sydney University , Sydney , Australia.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.affiliation: d Faculty of Health , University of Canberra , Canberra , Australia.
authors.forename: Gordon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Waddington
authors.affiliation: d Faculty of Health , University of Canberra , Canberra , Australia.|e Australian Ballet School , Melbourne , Australia.|f Australian Catholic University , Banyo , Australia.
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Karin
authors.affiliation: a Gait and Balance Research Group, College of Sport and Exercise Science , Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University , Melbourne , Australia.
authors.forename: Oren
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tirosh
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003615:Dancing / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006257:Head / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008161:Lumbosacral Region / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D004856:Postural Balance / Q000502:physiology*; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: dancers; dynamic; gender; postural balance; static