Banner University Medical Center Sports Medicine and Concussion Program, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Banner University Medical Center-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
J Vestib Res. 2019;29(5):221-228. doi: 10.3233/VES-190678.
The ability to clearly perceive an object while the head is in motion is important in athletics, as it relates to performance and potentially to injury prevention. Normative data for healthy adults on measures of gaze stability have been established. However, data for elite athletes is scarce.
To describe performance of elite athletes on computerized gaze stability testing and establish normative data for reference.
Data were acquired via retrospective chart review. 134 male professional baseball players completed computerized Visual Acuity, Visual Perception Time and Gaze Stability Tests as part of a multi-modal baseline testing session.
Performance of all athletes was superior to general population norms reported in the literature. There were no significant differences between the optimal and suboptimal consistency groups or between English-speaking and non- or limited-English speaking players.
Similar to prior studies with smaller samples that have examined GST in athletes, we found high levels of GST performance in professional baseball players relative to normative data for the general population. Normative data for elite athletes was established using this healthy sample. This study underscores the importance of understanding the unique abilities of elite athletes when providing therapy after injury.
头部运动时清晰感知物体的能力在运动中很重要，因为它与表现和潜在的预防受伤有关。已经为健康成年人制定了有关注视稳定性测量的规范数据。但是，关于精英运动员的数据却很少。
描述精英运动员在计算机化注视稳定性测试中的表现，并建立参考规范数据。
数据通过回顾性图表审查获得。 134 名男性职业棒球运动员在多模式基线测试过程中完成了计算机视觉、视觉感知时间和注视稳定性测试。
所有运动员的表现均优于文献中报道的一般人群正常值。在最佳和次佳一致性组之间，或者在讲英语和不讲英语或英语有限的运动员之间，均无显著差异。
与先前研究中使用较小样本检查 GST 在运动员中的应用的研究类似，我们发现相对于普通人群的规范数据，职业棒球运动员的 GST 表现水平很高。使用这个健康样本建立了精英运动员的规范数据。这项研究强调了在受伤后提供治疗时了解精英运动员独特能力的重要性。
