Horváth Áron, Béki Piroska, Bősze Júlia Patakiné, Koncz Ádám, Szabo Attila, Köteles Ferenc
Institute of Psychology, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary.
Ádám György Psychophysiology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary.
Physiol Rep. 2025 Aug;13(16):e70501. doi: 10.14814/phy2.70501.
This study investigated whether a 5-day ski camp could improve postural stability in young adults. It was hypothesized that skiing would reduce postural sway. In this quasi-experimental design, 43 undergraduate students who participated in a 5-day ski camp (approximately 20 h of skiing) were compared to 35 peers who did not attend. Postural stability was assessed using the modified Clinical Test of Sensory Integration and Balance protocol of the Balance Tracking System, which evaluates sway under four standing conditions: eyes open or closed, and on stable or unstable surfaces. Quade nonparametric ANCOVAs were used to compare percentage change scores between groups, controlling for age. No significant group differences emerged for standard, proprioceptive, or vestibular postural stability (p > 0.05). However, a statistically significant group effect was found for visual postural stability (p = 0.006), with improvement observed only in females (p = 0.003), not in males (p = 0.961). A 5-day ski camp significantly enhanced visual postural stability in females but did not affect males or other postural domains. These findings suggest a potential sex-specific adaptation to skiing and highlight the need for further research into the mechanisms underlying balance improvement.
本研究调查了为期5天的滑雪训练营是否能改善年轻人的姿势稳定性。研究假设滑雪会减少姿势摆动。在这个准实验设计中，将43名参加了为期5天滑雪训练营（约20小时滑雪时间）的本科生与35名未参加的同龄人进行了比较。使用平衡追踪系统的改良感觉统合与平衡临床测试方案评估姿势稳定性，该方案在四种站立条件下评估摆动：睁眼或闭眼，以及在稳定或不稳定表面上。使用Quade非参数协方差分析来比较组间的百分比变化分数，并控制年龄因素。在标准姿势稳定性、本体感觉姿势稳定性或前庭姿势稳定性方面，未发现显著的组间差异（p>0.05）。然而，在视觉姿势稳定性方面发现了具有统计学意义的组效应（p = 0.006），仅在女性中观察到改善（p = 0.003），在男性中未观察到改善（p = 0.961）。为期5天的滑雪训练营显著提高了女性的视觉姿势稳定性，但对男性或其他姿势领域没有影响。这些发现表明对滑雪可能存在性别特异性适应，并强调需要进一步研究平衡改善背后的机制。
