TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ohlendorf, Daniela Maren
A1  - Romdhane, Mara
A1  - Lehmann, Christoph
A1  - Lehmann, Sebastian
A1  - Kopp, Stefan
A1  - Maurer-Grubinger, Christian
A1  - Oremek, Gerhard
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Wanke, Eileen M.
T1  - Effect of a sports mouthguard on the functional range of motion of the spine and the upper body posture in taekwondo
T2  - BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation
N2  - Background: The aim is to investigate to what extent the different oral protections compared to the habitual occlusion affect the upper body posture in statics and during taekwondo-specific movement.
Methods: 12 Taekwondoka (5 f/7 m) of German national team were measured by using a 3d back scanner and an ultrasonic distance measuring (upright stand, taekwondo attack and defense movement, two taekwondo specific combinations) in habitual occlusion, with a custom-made and ready-made mouth protection
Results: There are no significant changes in the upper body posture (p ≥ 0.05). Depending on the dynamic measurements, different significant reactions of the spinal position were found while wearing the custom made mouthguard or the ready-made mouthguard according to the conducted movement.
Conclusion: The measured changes in dynamic movements are not clinical relevant. Based on the positive responses from the participants, the custom-made mouth protection can be recommended combined with an individual analysis.
KW  - Taekwondoka
KW  - Back scan
KW  - sonoSens
KW  - Custom-made mouthguard
KW  - Ready-made mouthguard
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62840
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-628409
SN  - 2052-1847
N1  - The peer review history for this article is available at https://bmcsportsscimedrehabil.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13102-021-00232-0/peer-review.
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 13
IS  - art. 5
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -