Atalay Güzel, NevinÇınar Medeni, ÖzgeAcak, MahmutSavaş, Seyfi2022-03-222022-03-222015Atalay Güzel, N. , Çınar Medeni, Ö. , Acak, M. & Savaş, S. (2016). Postural Control of The Elite Deaf Football Players . Journal of Athletic Performance and Nutrition , 3 (1) , 1-8 . Retrieved from https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/japn/issue/18606/196359https://hdl.handle.net/11616/56930Objectives: Childhood hearing impairment is a common chronic condition that may have a major impact on postural control. The aim of this study was to determine the postural control of the elite deaf football players and compare normal-hearing football players and sedentary deaf controls. Eighteen deaf football players, ten deaf sedentary controls, ten normal-hearing sedentary controls were included in study. Methods: Postural stability was assessed both on bilateral stance and on single-limb stance with Biodex-Balance System on static surface, in eyes-open condition. Limits of stability testing were performed on bilateral stance. Results: Statistically significant results were found in medial-lateral index (MLI) score of dominant and non-dominant legs among three groups respectively (p=0.027, p=0.045). In limits of stability testing significant differences were found for overall direction (p=0.008) and right direction (p=0.017) among three groups. There was a significant difference in MLI score of non-dominant leg (p=0.012) and in right direction of limits of stability test (p=0.016) between deaf athletes and deaf controls. Also there were significant differences found in MLI score of dominant legs (p=0.023) and overall (p<0.001) and right (p=0.008) direction of limits of stability test between deaf controls and healthy controlseninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArticle