The game of basketball requires complex eye-hand coordination and exceptional postural control ability. This study compared eye-hand coordination and postural control before and after vestibular stimulation in trained basketball players with healthy, age-matched controls. Fifteen trained basketball players and 17 healthy adults (all male, age range 19-25 years) were recruited. The participants were required to perform a fast finger-pointing task involving a moving visual target in a standing position, before and after whole head-and-body rotation at 150ºs-1 for 30 s seated in a rotational chair. Results show that the trained basketball players had shorter reaction times in eye-hand coordination tasks (a decrease of 23.3% vs an increase of 8.1% of controls, p=0.008) and regained postural control more quickly (mediolateral direction: 0.4% vs 43.3%; p=0.009; anteroposterior direction: 3.9% vs 21.5%, p=0.038) after vestibular stimulation. These data suggest that vestibular stimulation could enhance balance and eye-hand coordination among young basketball players. The findings may provide information for sports training and further research work.
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Eye-Hand Coordination, Postural Control, Vestibular Stimulation, Basketball
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William W. N. Tsang, Shirley S. M. Fong, Yoyo T. Y. Cheng, Dinisha D. Daswani, Hiu Yan Lau, et al. (2014). The Effect of Vestibular Stimulation on Eye-Hand Coordination and Postural Control in Elite Basketball Players. American Journal of Sports Science, 2(2), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajss.20140202.12
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