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Figures (a) and (b) shows the study of leg asymmetries in a change of direction task (c).
This brief report details the first ever instrument-based motion description of an accidental "giving way" episode of the ankle joint incurred by a recreational male athlete (age = 22 years; height = 1.78 m; body mass = 97 kg) with chronic ankle instability whilst he was performing a change of direction task.
The experimental measures used were the Stroop-like Location – Direction Task (SLDT) to assess executive attention and the battery of aversiveness to sounds (BAS), a standardized measure of aversive sounds that was developed for this study and enabled individual customization of aversive auditory sounds.
Also, during interactions with loads in the anterior-posterior direction, task performance was only slightly affected by posture.
This can be seen in Figure 5b,c where psychometric functions from the direction task are plotted separately for the CFFT Stable and the CFFT Improving control subjects.
While subjects in the CFFT Improving group showed a significant increase of performance on the direction task (p<0.05, ANOVA; Figure 5b), subjects in the CFFT Stable group showed no significant change in performance on the direction task (p = 0.64, ANOVA; Figure 5c).
During interactions with an environment that was unstable in the medial-lateral direction, task performance was greatly increased when the hand was held near the trunk, relative to when it was held away from the body.
Both our study and Murphy et al.'s used a walker direction task (though with differences in stimuli, control conditions, and behavioural measures) and found no difference between performance in ASC and in controls [24].
The fact that performance improvements in the direction task were specific to a particular direction of motion implies that the CFFT increase is not due to general improvements in cognitive, or even visual abilities, but is instead linked to the improvement of a highly specific visual skill.
