ArticleFrontiers in physiology2026
Immediate impact of hip and sacroiliac diagonal mobilization and proprioceptive exercise on Y-balance performance and force-plate postural metrics in youth male soccer players: an exploratory study.
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Abstract
This exploratory randomized crossover trial compared the immediate effects of diagonal hip/sacroiliac mobilization, a proprioceptive exercise sequence, and a sham manual-contact condition on surrogate measures of static and dynamic balance in youth male soccer players.
methodsFifteen male soccer players aged 11-13 years completed all three conditions in randomized order. Before and immediately after each session, participants performed bipodal and single-leg K-Force force-plate tests and the Lower Quarter Y-Balance Test. The dominant-limb Y-Balance composite was treated as the principal dynamic-balance endpoint, whereas the remaining Y-Balance variables and force-plate measures were considered secondary/exploratory outcomes.
resultsMost outcomes showed no consistent condition × time effect. For the secondary/exploratory bipodal force-plate battery, a nominal interaction was observed for eyes-closed right-foot center-of-pressure (COP) surface area (p = 0.021, ηp² = 0.24), reflecting greater sway after mobilization than after control (Δ = +133 mm²), a potentially destabilizing rather than beneficial change. In eyes-closed single-leg stance, COP surface asymmetry also showed a nominal interaction (p = 0.013, ηp² = 0.27); proprioceptive exercise reduced asymmetry versus control (Δ = -25.5 percentage points; p = 0.015, dz = 0.71). For the principal dynamic-balance endpoint, the dominant-limb Y-Balance composite showed a condition × time interaction (p = 0.029, ηp² = 0.22); compared with control, mobilization attenuated the post-session decline (Δ = +10.4 percentage points; p = 0.008, dz = 0.81).
conclusionsA single session of diagonal mobilization or proprioceptive exercise did not produce generalized acute improvements across the balance battery. The only between-condition signal that remained statistically significant after within-outcome adjustment was preservation of the dominant-limb Y-Balance composite after mobilization versus control. The force-plate findings were isolated exploratory results and do not support meaningful warm-up or injury-prevention claims.
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