Research summary · Para sport
Balance training in handball players with hearing impairment
Twenty-four male handball players with hearing impairment were randomized to 20 sensorimotor sessions over five weeks or continued usual training, with 12 participants in each group.
- Publication year
- 2026
- First published online
- Publication type
- Randomized controlled trial
- Journal
- Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
- Population / context
- Male handball players with hearing impairment
What the publication reports
Selected balance measures and knee-position sense improved with the programme, particularly posteromedial and posterolateral reach and position sense at 60 degrees of knee flexion. Agility performance did not show a clear benefit.
Limits and interpretation
The small sample lacked an advance sample-size calculation, and there was no long-term follow-up. These are motor-control outcomes, not injury outcomes: the trial cannot show that the programme prevents injuries or improves competitive handball performance.
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Effects of a sensorimotor training program on balance and knee motor control in male handball players with hearing impairment: a randomized controlled trial
Original publication / indexed recordPMID: 42591856DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2026.1812503Full text at the sourceReader discussion
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