A influência da amplitude de movimento de membro inferior na performance de atividades esportivas

Abstract

Range of motion, strength, skill level, training volume, practice time are a few important variables for better performance in high-performance sports. Lower limb range of motion may be related to better performance in sports such as jumping, throwing, swimming, kicking in soccer, among others. Therefore, the aim of this literature review was to investigate whether lower limb range of motion influences performance in sports activities. Electronic databases were used for the search, such as PubMed, LILACS and EMBASE, without restriction regarding language or publication time (years). The initial searches found 2,814 articles and at each stage they were eliminated based on the exclusion criteria, with only 12 being eligible for the study. This review identified a positive relationship between lower limb range of motion and performance in the analyzed articles. That is, most of the studies observed that a greater lower limb range of motion was related to a better performance on sports related tasks.