University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Center for Gait and Movement Analysis, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Clin Biomech (Bristol). 2020 Jun;76:105019. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2020.105019. Epub 2020 May 6.
Female gymnasts have a greater prevalence of back pain compared to other female athletes. There is little evidence that female artistic gymnasts with and without back pain demonstrate different movement patterns during gymnastics skills. The purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences in back movements during back walkovers and back handsprings among female artistic gymnasts.
Female artistic gymnasts (8-18 years old) with and without back pain wore inertial sensors on their torso, arms, and legs while performing back walkovers (N = 14) and back handsprings (N = 15) on the floor and balance beam at their training gymnastics facilities.
Gymnasts with back pain had similar spine peak extension, peak flexion, and range of motion during back walkovers and back handsprings compared to gymnasts without back pain. Additionally, no differences in sagittal plane spine kinematics were found between the groups at any specific time point during either the back walkover or back handspring skills. However, a large portion of the data collected was excluded during quality assurance, thus our final sample sizes are small.
These findings suggest that gymnasts with back pain have similar sagittal plane movements to those without back pain. The relationship between back pain and gymnastics training load/intensity is currently unclear. We suggest future studies to investigate common artistic gymnastics skills and back pain prevalence with more participants, full-body motion analysis with kinetic measurement capabilities, and longitudinally for those demonstrating back pain.
与其他女性运动员相比，女性体操运动员背痛的患病率更高。几乎没有证据表明有或没有背痛的女子艺术体操运动员在进行体操技能时表现出不同的运动模式。本研究的目的是确定女子艺术体操运动员在做后软翻和后手翻时背部运动是否存在差异。
有或没有背痛的女子艺术体操运动员（8-18 岁）在训练体操设施的地板和平衡木上进行后软翻（N=14）和后手翻（N=15）时，在躯干、手臂和腿部佩戴惯性传感器。
与没有背痛的运动员相比，背痛运动员在后软翻和后手翻时脊柱的峰值伸展、峰值屈曲和运动幅度相似。此外，在任何特定时间点，在后软翻或后手翻技能中，两组之间在矢状面脊柱运动学方面没有差异。然而，在质量保证期间排除了大部分收集的数据，因此我们的最终样本量很小。
这些发现表明，有背痛的运动员与没有背痛的运动员具有相似的矢状面运动。背痛与体操训练负荷/强度之间的关系目前尚不清楚。我们建议未来的研究使用更多的参与者、具有动力学测量能力的全身运动分析，并对那些表现出背痛的人进行纵向研究，以调查常见的艺术体操技能和背痛患病率。
