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Thesis Type: Doctorate
Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi University, Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Turkey
Approval Date: 2019
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: AHMET RAHMİ GÜNAY
Supervisor: Filiz Fatma Çolakoğlu
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of 12 weeks proprioceptive training
applied to adolescent female volleyball players on detection time, reaction time and
balance performance. Thirty female voleyball players (aged 14-17 years), attending
voleyball trainings in their clups regularly, 90-120 min. per day for 3 days per week,
participated in this study, voluntarily. Experimental and control groups were formed by
closed envelope randomization method. In addition to the regular volleyball training, the
proprioceptive exercise program (8-11 movements in each training session), which was
designed from simple to complex every week, ranging from 20 to 30 minutes 3 days a
week for 12 weeks, was applied to the athletes in the experimental group. The athletes in
the control group continued their volleyball training including basic techniques, combined
techniques and tactical exercises. The anticipation times at different stimulus speeds
(3mph, 5mph, 8mph), reaction time (visual, auditory, mixed) and balance performances
(anterior-posterior, medial-lateral) of the athletes in experimental and control groups were
recorded before and after the 12-week program. The Bassin Anticipation Timer, Newtest
1000, Technobody Prokin 200 Instrument were used for anticipation timing, reaction time,
balance performance measurements, respectively. As a result of statistical analysis; there
were statistically significant differences in absolute error score (8mph), visual reaction
time, auditory reaction time and mixed reaction time performances of the experimental
group (p<0.05). The anterior-posterior balance performance of the experimental group was
also improved, but this improvement was not statistically significant (p>0.05). In
conclusion, it is thought that moderate and long-term proprioceptive exercises contribute to
the development of perceptual-motor skills such as anticipation timing, reaction time and
balance performances of adolescent female volleyball players. It is recommended that this
study should be conducted on elite female and male athletes playing in different leagues in
different age groups.
Key words : Volleyball, proprioception, reaction time, anticipation time,
balance,