Many injuries to both beginner and professional basketball players are related to limited range of motion and imbalances in the body. It became possible to trace the problems characteristic of basketball players in general and to determine the age-related characteristics of the imbalance for players of the highest category with the help of modern digital technology TE3. During the study, 12 players of the professional basketball club "MBA" and 26 basketball players of the extended composition of the Russian youth team (born in 2005) were tested. The purpose of the study was to analyze the results of testing basketball players of different age categories, to search for age-related characteristics in the context of the problem of imbalance and limited range of motion. As a result, similar problems were found in subjects of different ages - insufficient range of motion in the tests: trunk rotation, hip flexion with ankle flexion, hip extension - 2. Also, both teams were characterized by hypermobility in the hip adduction test. Test results for older players demonstrated a high level of deviation from the norms of range of motion with better balance in almost all tests.
mobility, range of motion, imbalance, basketball
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