Influence of gender and age on balance performance in healthy school-going children
A cross-sectional study
Keywords:
gender, balance, static test, childrenAbstract
Introduction: Balance is the ability to control the position of the body’s Centre of mass (COM) over its base of support (BOS) to prevent the body from falling and to achieve specific functional task. It was hypothesized from the studies that along with the age, gender differences may exist for postural stability. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the static postural stability of primary school-aged children and to determine whether this was moderated by age and/or gender. Methods: There were eight Government & Private schools were selected from Vadodara city. Total 10 students were selected from each class randomly; the anthropometric measurements of the students were taken. Each participant then completed timed unipedal balance test on both right and left foot, and tandem stance. For two balance test, each subject completed 3 trials on each leg. A 60 second rest was given between trials set to avoid fatigue. Result: Total 556 school children among them male students were 282 and female students were 274 who were selected and performed two balance test.
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