A Study to Determine the Correlation of Ankle Dorsiflexion Range of Motion with Dynamic Balance in Young Males and Females

Background: Posture and balance play a important role in the overall health of the body. Dynamic posture could depends on leg strength muscle, core strength muscle, proprioceptive abilities, age, sex, body height, body mass etc and ofcourse, dorsiflexion range of motion (DROM) as a measure of flexibility of the ankle joint is one of them. Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the correlation of ankle dorsiflexion range of motion and dynamic balance in young males and females. Methodology: 60 healthy young adults (both male and females) fulfilling the inclusion criteria were selected randomly. Ankle dorsiflexion and dynamic balance were assessed by performance based measures. The Pearson’s correlation test was used to examine the correlation of Ankle dorsiflexion Range of motion with dynamic balance. Results: There is significant correlation of Ankle dorsiflexion range of motion and dynamic balance in young males in medial direction (+0.25,+0.38) and females in anterior and posterolateral direction(+0.05,+0.15 and +0.12,+0.24). But there is weak correlation in Anterolateral(L), Lateral(L), Posterior(L), Medial (L) and Anteromedial(L) in Females and in lateral(L), posterolateral(L), posterior(L), Anteromedial(L) in males. Conclusion: It can be concluded from the study that Ankle dorsiflexion range of motion is associated with dynamic balance in young adults