Integrated Exercise Therapy Interventions on the Performance and Injury Prevention in Competitive Sports

Integrated Proximal and Distal Joint Exercise Therapy Interventions on the Performance and Injury Prevention in Competitive Sports: Effects of Motor Control and Tissue Biomechanics

Football is an increasingly popular exercise and common practice in adolescent and elite athletes. However, these athletes tend to have injuries involving the lower extremity and foot. Recent literature has proposed a promising concept of core stability on the arch of the foot and proximal hip control exercise for a knee injury. They have highlighted that foot core training begins with targeting the plantar intrinsic muscles through exercise intervention, which may enhance the capacity and control of the foot core system. Moreover, it is hypothesized that the 'complexity algorithm' of exercise intervention for proximal hip control may provide more sufficient effects in musculoskeletal pain in the lower extremity. However, some conflicting issues such as assessment and training of foot intrinsic muscle in functional positions are still largely lack of device and research to elucidate the underlying mechanism of its development and integrated exercise interventions proximally and distally on these athletes. Firstly, the investigators aim to design and development of novel intrinsic foot muscle assessment and training device in sporting tasks and to examine feasibility and reliability of muscle stiffness in foot and hip joint before and after exercise intervention using shear wave ultrasound elastography (SWUE) in athletes without and with foot and ankle overuse injuries; second, investigators will investigate whether immediate and persistent alteration after the integrated therapeutic exercise on motor control and muscle stiffness.

Integrated Exercise Therapy Interventions on the Performance and Injury Prevention in Competitive Sports

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