INVESTIGATION OF OPTIMAL LUMBAR SPINE POSTURE DURING A SIMULATED LANDING TASK IN ELITE GYMNASTS

摘要

BackgroundLumbar spine range of motion (ROM) is a key component of injury prevention and normative data has not currently been determined for an elite gymnastics population. In current clinical practice, it is commonplace to measure sagittal spinal alignment, during ‘high-load, low-dynamic’ control tasks, subjectively, while also only considering the lumbar spine as a single segment