Postural stability in athletes: The role of sport direction.

Background: The bulk of relevant studies compare individual or very few sports and on small samples of athletes. This requires extensive analysing postural stability in various sports.

Research Question: The main objective of our study was to identify the features of postural stability in a normal vertical stance in athletes of various kinds.

Postural Stability in Athletes: The Role of Age, Sex, Performance Level, and Athlete Shoe Features.

The effects of different factors-such as age, sex, performance level, and athletic shoe features-on postural balance in athletes remain unclear. The main objective of our study is to identify the features of postural stability in athletes of different age, sex, performance level, and using different types of athletic shoes. This study assessed postural stability in athletes ( = 936, 6-47 years) in a normal bipedal stance with eyes open (EO) and eyes closed (EC).