Posture analysis in extreme sports

Abstract Balance is a complex motor skill requiring fine central processing of vestibular, visual, and somatosensory information to control and produce postural actions (Pankanin, Dobosiewicz, & Mietkowska, 2018). Without balance, humans normal functioning could not take place. Thus in activity that requires coordination, fast actions, and complex motor skills, such as during sports, balance becomes extremely relevant. Postural control is essential key component in athletic performances. The participations to extreme sports have grown in the past years, thus with it also the development of extreme sport medicine. Professional athletes are required to constantly improve performances, and one aspect of focus is balance. Similarly, injured patients are often forced to rehabilitate their vestibular system through proprioceptive and somatosensory exercises. In this chapter, we will brief report some of the posturography that athletes could use in training and for rehabilitative purposes.