COMPARISON OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC BALANCE IN COLLEGIATE HOCKEY AND TENNIS PLAYER

Heena; Davinder Kumar Gaur; Nidhi Kalra; Harmeet Bawa

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

COMPARISON OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC BALANCE IN COLLEGIATE HOCKEY AND TENNIS PLAYER

Heena, Davinder Kumar Gaur, Nidhi Kalra, Harmeet Bawa

Abstract :

Background:Balance is considered to be an important aspect of performance of all individuals whilst undertaking various daily activities. Tennis and field hockey are complex and dynamic games in which players make decisions regarding technique selection (e.g. a good shooter needs to understand which technique to use. Forehand and backhand in tennis are the most commonly used strokes in field, similarly push pass and hit in field of hockey, players must be able to handle the ball, and they have to handle it under the pressure of time, limited space, physical exhaustion, and dogged challenges from opponents.The environmental demands and skill requirement in different sports likely induces different challenges to the sensory–motor systems that cumulatively might have influenced the abilities of balance in trained athletes.Thus balance testing becomes imperative to detect how the athletes from different sports perform in balance test. Aims and Objectives: To study static and dynamic balance in collegiate hockey and tennis players. Method:30 hockey and 30 tennis male players of age group 18–25yrs were included in the study. Players were tested for static balance using Standing Stork Balance Test and for dynamic balance using SEBT (SEBT). Result:study it was found that dynamic balance in tennis players was significantly different than hockey players measured by RSEBT of Hockey with RSEBT of Tennis (t=4.4860, p=0.0001) and LSEBT of Hockey with LSEBT of Tennis (t=4.5877, p=0.0001).Comp� RSSBT of Hockey with RSSBT of Tennis the difference was found to be statically insignificant. Conclusion:Result of the study concluded that there is significant difference in Dynamic balance between Hockey and Tennis players and tennis players have higher dynamic balance than hockey players