A comparison of results between a Y-Balance Test and a Star Excursion Balance Test among professional floorball players

Author: Bc. Klaudia Robová Supervisor: PhDr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. Title: A comparison of results between a Y-Balance Test and a Star Excursion Balance Test among professional floorball players Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to find a relation between the Y-Balance Test and the Star Excursion Balance Test among professional floorball players and simultaneously to evaluate a level of a dynamic postural stability among professional floorball players and afterwards to evaluate a risk level of a lower limb injury. Methods: This thesis is characterised by a non-experimental observational study. A research sample consisted of a deliberately selected group of professional floorball players n = 60, 30 men and 30 women in the age range from 18 to 33 years (the average age was 21.37 +/- 3.63 years), who have actively played the highest senior competition in the Czech Republic at least for one year. Each proband complied certain criteria to be included into the study. The measurement was taken in the field in sports halls of the tested professional clubs. The dynamic postural stability was evaluated by the Y-Balance Test measured with the Y-Balance Test Kit device in three directions and the Star Excursion Balance Test with The MAT® in eight directions. The data, which were obtained by both test..