Comparison of the proprioception sense of ankle joint between 20-30 years old healthy non-athletic women and athletic women with jogging and non- jogging exercises

Introduction: Proprioception is an important sense to recognize limb position and to detect the direction of limb displacement during a movement. The present study is performed to compare the proprioception sense of ankle joint between healthy non-athletic women and athletic women with jogging activities and with non- jogging exercises. Materials and Methods: Experimental study was done on 63 healthy women between 20-30 y/o. They were divided into 3 equal groups that included non-athletic group, athletes with non-jogging activities and athletes with non-jogging activities to measure the ankle proprioception. We used two pedal goniometers for four movements of ankle joints. Statistical analysis was used by Kruskal-wallis. Results: The results revealed that the least error of the angles in all movements, was in the group of athletes with jogging activities and the most error of the angles in all movements, was in the group of athletes with non- jogging activities. In analysis of mean different between each two groups together, we found that only dorsiflexion was significant difference between the group of athletes with jogging activities and the group of athletes with non- jogging activities, and also between the non-athletic group and the non-jogging athletic group. Conclusion: This research revealed that jogging exercises affect the improvement of proprioception. This effect focuses more on dorsiflexion. Hence, we suggest that jogging activities for improving of this sense or paying more attention to dorsiflexon when we reeducate for the subjects.