Football and Its Indirect Effects On the Stability Test for Collegiate Students

摘要

Sports is already proven to give a lot of benefits to the human body. The finest explanation about its benefits is still in research. To invoke the awareness, sometimes it needs a little more research to come out with statistical numbers required to convince the sedentary people to engage in sports. Comparisons were made in this study between football players and the sedentary participants in the unipedal stand test (UPST) using force plate-form. The test was conducted in two conditions, opened eyes and closed eyes for both dominant and non-dominant legs. Comparisons were made between the time of UPST, distance travel of center of pressure (CoP) and velocity of CoP during the test. From the results of the distance travelled, the football players showed significant differences in the result with closed eyes condition, which showed that football players are less dependent on visual stimuli and have better standing ability. Other benefits should be explored in order to give more information to people to increase the awareness of an active lifestyle.