Table 5. The correlations between ADROM and performance-based tests.
| Open-chain ADROM | Weight-bearing ADROM | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominant lower limb | Non-dominant lower limb | Dominant lower limb | Non-dominant lower limb | |||||
| With knee flexion | With knee extension | With knee flexion | With knee extension | With knee flexion (Soleus extensibility) | With knee extension (Gastrocnemius extensibility) | With knee flexion (Soleus extensibility) |
With knee extension (Gastrocnemius extensibility) | |
| CKCLEST | rho = 0.255 95% CI [−0.211, .0627] P = 0.264 |
rho = 0.149 95% CI [−0.314, 0.555] P = 0.518 |
rho = 0.291 95% CI [−0.174, 0.650] P = 0.200 |
rho = 0.335 95% CI [−0.127, 0.677] P = 0.138 |
rho = 0.514* 95% CI [0.092, 0.779] P = 0.017* |
rho = 0.330 95% CI [−0.132, 0.674] P = 0.145 |
rho = 0.343 95% CI [−0.118, 0.682] P = 0.128 |
rho = 0.271 95% CI [−0.195, 0.637] P = 0.234 |
| SHDT for the dominant lower limb |
r = − 0.291 95% CI [−0.642, 0.161] P = 0.201 |
rho = 0.060 95% CI [−0.394, 0.489] P = 0.798 |
r = 0.059 95% CI [−0.382, 0.479] P = 0.799 |
r = 0.50 95% CI [−0.390, 0.471] P = 0.830 |
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| SHDT for the non-dominant lower limb |
r = − 0.160 95% CI [−0.554, 0.292] P = 0.488 |
r = − 0.042 95% CI [−0.465, 0.397] P = 0.856 |
r = − 0.157 95% CI [−.0.551, 0.295] P = 0.497 |
r = − 0.239 95% CI [−0.608, 0.215] P = 0.297 |
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| SHT for the dominant lower limb | rho = 0.182 95% CI [−0.283, 0.578] P = 0.429 |
rho = 0. 288 95% CI [−0.177, 0.648] P = 0.205 |
rho = 0.198 95% CI [−0.268, 0.589] P = 0.389 |
rho = 0.145 95% CI [−0.318, 0.552] P = 0.530 |
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| SHT for the non-dominant lower limb | rho = 0.235 95% CI [−0.323, 0.614] P = 0.305 |
rho = 0.378 95% CI [−0.078, 0.703] P = 0.091 |
rho = 0.252 95% CI [−0.214, 0.625] P = 0.270 |
rho = 0.030 95% CI [−0.418, 0.466] P = 0.898 |
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Notes.
- ADROM
- Ankle Dorsiflexion Range-of-Motion
- CKCLEST
- Closed Kinetic Chain Lower Extremity Stability Test
- SHDT
- Single-leg Hop for Distance Test
- SHT
- Side Hop Test
- CI
- Confidence Interval
- rho
- Spearman’s Correlation Coefficient
- r
- Pearson’s Correlation coefficient
- P
- the probability value of getting the resulted data when the null hypothesis is assumed to be true
*
P < 0.05, the significance level was set at less than 0.05 with the star sign indicating the statistically significant finding.