Abstract

ALVIS-GOMEZ, Karim  and  PULZARA-TIARA, Andrea. Auditory discrimination, visual scanning, space and body schemes development in tennis players and non-athletes subjects. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2013, vol.61, n.4, pp.395-403. ISSN 0120-0011.

Background. The understanding of corporal movement as a product of complex relationships requires an approach to body and space internal models and their interactions with allocentric, geocentric and propiocentrics inputs. Objective. To describe the comparative visual scanning, auditory discrimination, body and spatial schemes in a group of high performance tennis players and in a group of non-athletes. Materials and methods. Comparative descriptive study of two groups (tennis players and non-athletes), with a crossover design, in which were evaluated the conditions of visual scanning, auditory discrimination, body and spatial schemes. The subjects were ranged between 14-18 years of age. Results. It is found that although both groups scored could be considered normal, in some items of body schema, such as spatial location (a difference of 10%), stroke continuity (14% difference), anatomy (4% difference) performance of athletes was higher than non-athletes. The same happens in relation to spatial scheme, in which the ability and development of auditory discrimination, specially the spatial depth perception and the degree of visual scanning of the space, athletes had superior performance compared to that of non-athletes who were in normal range or good. Conclusion. There is a higher visuospatial, with better orientation in the space and a better and more precise body scheme in the athletes group. Added to this, the training sports level and sports performance, may be related to visual and auditory function and its relation to internal models.

Keywords : Body Image; Space Perception; Tennis; Physical Therapy Specialty.

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