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How to determine leg dominance: The agreement between self-reported and observed performance in healthy adults

PloS one, 2017-12, Vol.12 (12), p.e0189876-e0189876 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2017 Public Library of Science ;COPYRIGHT 2017 Public Library of Science ;2017 van Melick et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;2017 van Melick et al 2017 van Melick et al ;ISSN: 1932-6203 ;EISSN: 1932-6203 ;DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189876 ;PMID: 29287067

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  • Title:
    How to determine leg dominance: The agreement between self-reported and observed performance in healthy adults
  • Author: van Melick, Nicky ; Meddeler, Bart M ; Hoogeboom, Thomas J ; Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Maria W G ; van Cingel, Robert E H
  • Macaluso, Andrea
  • Subjects: Adults ; Analysis ; Anterior cruciate ligament ; Athletes ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Dominance ; Extremities, Lower ; Health aspects ; Injuries ; Jumping ; Leg ; Medicine and Health Sciences ; Men ; People and Places ; Rehabilitation ; Research and Analysis Methods ; Social Sciences ; Statistical analysis ; Switches ; Treatment outcome
  • Is Part Of: PloS one, 2017-12, Vol.12 (12), p.e0189876-e0189876
  • Description: Since decades leg dominance is suggested to be important in rehabilitation and return to play in athletes with anterior cruciate ligament injuries. However, an ideal method to determine leg dominance in relation to task performance is still lacking. To test the agreement between self-reported and observed leg dominance in bilateral mobilizing and unilateral stabilizing tasks, and to assess whether the dominant leg switches between bilateral mobilizing tasks and unilateral stabilizing tasks. Cross-sectional study. Forty-one healthy adults: 21 men aged 36 ± 17 years old and 20 women aged 36 ±15 years old. Participants self-reported leg dominance in the Waterloo Footedness Questionnaire-Revised (WFQ-R), and leg dominance was observed during performance of four bilateral mobilizing tasks and two unilateral stabilizing tasks. Descriptive statistics and crosstabs were used to report the percentages of agreement. The leg used to kick a ball had 100% agreement between the self-reported and observed dominant leg for both men and women. The dominant leg in kicking a ball and standing on one leg was the same in 66.7% of the men and 85.0% of the women. The agreement with jumping with one leg was lower: 47.6% for men and 70.0% for women. It is appropriate to ask healthy adults: "If you would shoot a ball on a target, which leg would you use to shoot the ball?" to determine leg dominance in bilateral mobilizing tasks. However, a considerable number of the participants switched the dominant leg in a unilateral stabilizing task.
  • Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
    EISSN: 1932-6203
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189876
    PMID: 29287067
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
    PubMed Central
    Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    ProQuest Central
    DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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