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Isokinetic dynamometry of knee flexors and extensors: comparative study among non-athletes, jumper athletes and
Cássio Marinho Siqueira1, Fábio Ribeiro Mendes Mota Pelegrini, Maurício Furginelli Fontana
1Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo.
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Participation in intensive sports activities leads to muscular specializations that may generate alterations in involved articular forces and cause static (posture) and dynamic changes (alterations of articular stability, coordination, etc.). Prevention of injury requires specific functional muscular evaluation in all athletes and for any kind of sport.
Objective:
To dynamically evaluate, through isokinetic tests, the peak torque, total work, and average power of the knee flexor and extensor muscles of jumper and runner athletes and compare them to those of a non-athletic population, evaluating dominance and balance between agonistic and antagonistic muscle groups.
Results:
In the non-athlete group, we noted a higher asymmetry between the dominant and nondominant members. The jumpers had the highest values of the evaluated parameters of all groups, whereas parameters for the runners were intermediate between non-athletes and jumpers.
