Wii Fit as Balance Assessment and Training

Summary

Balance play a vital role to increase motor skills in healthy young adults. With increasing age balance control ability decreases,this decline can result as early as mid-30s. In young adults focus on improving anticipatory postural control so risk of lower extremity injuries especially ankle and knee injuries can be minimized and future risk of fall can be minimized.Objective is To compare the effect of traditional versus Wii fit training on balance in young adults the participants were randomly assigned into two groups interventional and control. total 18 minutes session was given to both groups wii fit group and traditional balance training group. all participants were given 3 sessions per week for 6. participants were initially accessed initially for eligibility , these participants were randomly divided into wii fit and traditional training group through sealed enveloped method . the initial assessment was done on wii fit. balance intervention to wii fit group is different games available on wii fit software. balance intervention given to traditional group is on trampoline and on BOSU ball.

Conditions

• Healthy Young Adults

Interventions

OTHER

balance-specific -games focusing on dynamic aspects of COP on Wii fit system.

The participants were randomly assigned into two groups interventional and control. Total 18 minutes session was given to both groups wii fit group and traditional balance training group. All participants were given 3 sessions per week for 6. Total 48 participants were initially accessed initially for eligibility , 13 participants were excluded because of having good balance and good balance age score on Wii fit assessment, 35 participants were recruited for balance training. These participants were randomly divided into Wii fit and traditional training group through sealed enveloped method 18 participants was recruited in Wii fit group and 17 in traditional balance training group. 3 participants drop out from Wii fit group and 2 from traditional balance training group. Some examples include catching apples in a basket ,moving a golf ball around barriers towards a hole , popping rising balloons/bubbles and air hockey .

OTHER

mini trampoline and inflatable discs group

High skipping and landing on a limb every time (2 repeats of 45 s each leg).Standing on one leg and try to catch the ball thrown at them in various directions by the researcher (2 repeats of 45 s each leg) Exercises in inFlated rubber hemisphere attached toa rigid platform (BOSU) 1. Standing on BOSU's round soft surface with one foot, in an attempt to maintain balance (2 repeats of 45 s each leg). 2. Standing on BOSU's round soft surface with one foot, in an attempt to maintain balance, while lifting the non-support leg forward and backward (2 repeats of 45 s each leg). 3. Standing on BOSU flat hard surface with both legs, in an attempt to maintain balance (3 minutes on both legs). 4. Standing on BOSUs flat hard surface with both feet, in an attempt to maintain balance, while trying to catch the ball thrown at them by the experimenter in various directions (3 minutes on both leg)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Riphah International University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Arshad Nawaz Malik, PHD · Riphah International University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

30 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-08-15

Primary Completion

2018-12-30

Completion

2019-01-15

Countries

• Pakistan

Study Locations