A New Approach in Ankle Joint Position Sense Assessment of Amateur Athletes: Pilot Study

Weakness in postural control makes athletes confront injury. Especially after injury joint position sense assestment a compenent of balance skill gives information about joint stabilization in rehabilitation progress. In this study ankle joint position sense of amateur athletes (5 female, 29 male) with injury history (n=6) and without injury history (n=28) were assessed. As a result of statistical analysis the mean error degrees of ankle position sense range between 2.5 degrees and 7.6 degrees and there is no significant difference of the mean error degree between the ones with injury history or without, female and male participants (p>0.05). Near normal ankle position sense assessment (test degree and determination of error degree) sequential joint position sense assessment thought as practical assessment method, is designed and in this assessment no athletes is determined as successful