Authors
Ziwei Cao, Mengde Lyu, Shuhui Wang, Jia Han
Published in
Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology. Volume 14. Pages 1865238. Epub Jun 25, 2026.
Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the association between ankle-cutting proprioception and stroke performance among adolescent elite table tennis players.
A total of 66 adolescent table tennis players were recruited. Ankle proprioception during lateral cutting movements was assessed using the Ankle Inversion Discrimination Apparatus-Cutting, while sport-specific performance was evaluated through an 80-ball whole-table random placement test (TS80). Hierarchical regression analysis was performed to examine the independent association between ankle proprioception and TS80 scores, controlling for sex, age, and body mass index (BMI).
The baseline model (sex, age, and BMI) significantly predicted stroke performance (R2 = 0.26, adjusted R2 = 0.23, p = 0.0003). Adding ankle cutting proprioception increased the explained variance by 17% (ΔR2 = 0.17, p < 0.001), with the full model explaining 43% of the variance (R2 = 0.43, adjusted R2 = 0.39, p < 0.001). In the final model, sex (β = 0.55, p < 0.001) and ankle proprioception (β = 0.41, p < 0.001) were significant independent predictors, while age and BMI were not. A significant sex × proprioception interaction (p = 0.012) indicated that the association was stronger in female athletes.
Ankle proprioception during lateral cutting is independently associated with stroke performance in adolescent table tennis players, suggesting that it may be a potential target for future interventional studies aiming at optimizing sport-specific accuracy.
PMID:
42428943
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 10 Jul 2026.
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