{
  "id": 152600,
  "title": "Virtual reality-assisted neuromuscular training effects on agility performance and injury prevention in basketball athletes: a controlled laboratory experiment",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/virtual-reality-assisted-neuromuscular-training-effects-on-agility",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-05T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Scientific Reports",
    "slug": "scientific-reports",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-48999-x"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A 12-week controlled laboratory experiment involving 70 university-level basketball athletes examined the effectiveness of virtual reality-assisted neuromuscular training on agility performance and injury prevention compared to conventional training approaches. The VR training group demonstrated 7–10% greater pre-to-post improvements in agility performance across multiple measures, as well as significant improvements in neuromuscular function parameters such as dynamic balance, joint position sense, dynamic knee valgus angles, and reactive strength index. These findings suggest that virtual reality-assisted neuromuscular training yields superior improvements in both agility performance and biomechanical injury risk markers compared to conventional training approaches in basketball athletes, supporting its integration into comprehensive athletic development programs.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}