The relationship between the cognitive and behavioral potential of young adults resistant to motor modifications and the effects of learning safe falling techniques

Abstract: The discovery of the phenomenon of resistance to motor modifications targeted at increasing personal safety during an unintentional fall raises questions about the relationship between the cognitive-behavioral potential of adults with such properties and the effects of learning how to safely collide with the ground due to loss of balance. The aim of these pilot studies is to resolve the question whether multi-month safe falling courses are a sufficient incentive for adults who are resistant to this type of modifications not only to eliminate the errors of colliding with the ground with distal parts of the body (it is about diagnosing the phenomenon of susceptibility to the body injuries during the fall - symbolic abbreviation: SFI) ), but also fully professionally mastered safe falling techniques.Among the 14 students of physiotherapy and physical education who had suffered at least one body injury in the past and at the same time committed the errors of colliding with the ground with four parts of the body during three tasks of the susceptibility test to the body injuries during the fall (SFIindex from 100% to 78.57%). still 9 of the physiotherapy students made mistakes, even though they participated in two safe fall courses - first for people with visual impairments, then for people with limb amputations. Two of them (22.22%) eliminated 100% of errors compared to the results preceding the training (SFIindex 0 points). The rest reduced errors by 92.31% to 76.92%. In this fraction (n = 7), three students still made mistakes with their legs and hands, and four only with their hands. None of the students performed the 'test for safe fall' (TSF) flawlessly - results from 95% to 85%). The results of the degree of error reduction by the fraction of 7 students are highly positively correlated (r = 0.802, p<0.05, and with a one-tailed test p<0.025) with the TSF results. The degree of error reduction by this fraction is highly negatively correlated (r = −0.769, p<0.05) with the comprehensive health effects of fall (CHEF). The relationships of these indicators are not as clear with the results of the body balance disturbation tolerance skills test (before the courses r = 0.363, after the courses r = 0.430).Conclusion: correlations of the degree of reduction of the SFI phenomenon in the course of teaching safe falling techniques to people who are resistant (in the cognitive and behavioral sense) to motor modifications with the indicators used to assess adaptation effects allow the following hypothesis to be put forward: complete resistance to motor modifications may turn out to be the simplest predictor of cognitive and cognitive potential. human behavioral health, and such knowledge would be provided by widespread research for the purpose of selective prevention and treatment of the effects of SFI, starting from early school age.

Keywords: Body balance disturbation tolerance skills, comprehensive health effects of fall, test for safe fall

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005716

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