Association of different types of playing surfaces with bone mass in growing girls
Ubago-Guisado E, Ubago-Guisado E, García-Unanue J, López-Fernández J, Sánchez-Sánchez J, Gallardo L
Journal of sports sciences · 9 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- European Social Fund
- Government
- Contratos predoctorales para la formación de personal investigador en el marco del Plan Propio de I+D+i, cofinanciados por el Fondo Social Europeo
Based on 2 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2016-08-26 · J Sports Sci · vol. 35 · issue 15 · pp. 1484–1492
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Cited
- 17 citations · more than 88% of similar papers · 2.4× the field average
- References
- 44 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Sports Performance and Training · Body Composition Measurement Techniques · Sports injuries and prevention
- Keywords
- Basketball, Athletes, Dual energy, Bone mass, Bone mineral content, Physical therapy, Psychology, Bone mineral, Orthodontics, Mathematics, Medicine, Geography
- MeSH
- humans, absorptiometry, photon, anthropometry, cross-sectional studies, adolescent development, child development, body composition, puberty, bone density, stress, mechanical, sports, facility design and construction, adolescent, child, female
5 authors
From ES
- Esther Ubago‐Guisado · correspondingUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha
- Jorge García‐UnanueUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha; Universidad Europea de Madrid
- Jorge López FernándezUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha
- Javier Sánchez‐SánchezUniversidad Católica de Murcia
- Leonor GallardoUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha
Abstract
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to compare bone mass in young female athletes playing ball games on different types of playing surfaces. About 120 girls, 9-13 years of age (10.6 ± 1.5 years old Tanner I-III) were recruited and divided into prepubertal and pubertal groups. The sample represented 3 groups of athletes: soccer (N = 40), basketball (N = 40), and handball (N = 40); and 6 different playing surfaces (soccer - ground, soccer - artificial turf, basketball - synthetic, basketball - parquet, handball - synthetic, and handball - smooth concrete). Total and regional body composition (bone mass, fat mass, and lean mass) were measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The mechanical properties of the surfaces (force reduction, vertical deformation, and energy return) were measured with the Advanced Artificial Athlete (Triple A) method. The degree of sexual development was determined using Tanner test. The pubertal group showed that soccer players on the ground, basketball players on synthetic, and handball players on smooth concrete had higher values of bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) (P < 0.05) than the soccer players on the artificial turf, basketball players on parquet, and handball players on synthetic. In conclusion, a hard playing surface, with less vertical deformation and force reduction, and greater energy return, is associated with higher levels of BMD and BMC in growing girls, regardless of the sport they practice.
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