Investigation of the relationship between patellofemoral (q) angle differences with lower extremity performance in young and veteran volleyball players

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the relation between patella femoral (Q) angle differences and static equilibrium,flexibility and take-off force in young and veteran volleyball players. To the study 20 young males with an average age of 18 ±00, 19 young females with a mean age of 18 ± 73, 21 veteran males with a mean age of 49 ± 04, 20 veteran females with a meanage of 48 ±70 who are registered players in Muğla Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports, a total of 80 athletes voluntarilyparticipated. The height, body weight, right and left leg Q angles in standing and laying, balance, flexibility and vertical takeoff measurements were performed in the research group respectively. The statistical evaluation of the obtained data was donein SPSS 21.00 package program on a personal computer. In the data with normal distribution, the parametric statistical methodswere used. While the analysis of variance (ANOVA) test was used for intergroup comparisons, the Turkey test was used formultiple comparisons, and the correlation level was used to determine the relationship between the variables and thesignificance level was taken as p