Balance Disorders
Conditions
Keywords
Action observation, Referent, Gender, Balance
Brief summary
The objective of the study is to analyze whether observing the actions of a referent selected by the participants improves balance in asymptomatic individuals compared to those who observe a standard referent.
Detailed description
Design: Randomized controlled clinical trial. The primary endpoint of the study was the balance recorded by force platform (estatic) and Y balance test (dynamic). Setting: The participants will be healthy people in the province of Tarragona. Participants: They will be randomly assigned to one of three groups using a computerized randomized list: * Control Group (CG): Participants will watch a video of landscapes without human or animal movement. * Intervention Group with Referent (GIR): Participants will observe actions whose referent has been selected by themselves based on perceived similarity. * Standard Intervention Group (GIE): Participants will observe actions with a standard reference.
Interventions
The participant will see videos of balance exercises performed by the assigned reference, depending on their group, without performing any physical movement.
Sponsors
University Rovira i Virgili
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Be of legal age. * Have a mobile device. * Have normal or corrected-to-normal vision. * Absence of neurological, orthopedic or vestibular disorders. * Absence of specific balance skills due to competitive sports. * Obtain a score of 3 or less on the Tegner activity scale. * Having voluntarily signed the informed consent and being willing to follow the protocol proposed by the research team.
Exclusion criteria
* History of participation in any study with movement representation methods. * Subjects with impaired communication and/or compression.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Static balance | 1 month | Center of pressure analysis: The displacement of the center of pressure (CPD) of the participants will be measured through posturographic tests performed on a force platform. The following variables related to the center of pressure (CoP) will be calculated: the roll area (in square millimeters) and the distribution of the weight load on both sides. |
| Dynamic Balance | 1 month | A modified and abbreviated version of the Star Excursion Balance Test, known as mSEBT, will be used. This test has been standardized and validated, and requires a board or floor with three lines indicating directions of movement: anterior (ANT), posteromedial (PM), and posterolateral (PL). These lines form a Y, with an angle of 90° between PM and PL, and 135° between ANT and PM, and ANT and PL. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Age | 1 day | Age will be measured in years |
| Biological sex | 1 day | Biological sex will be measured asking if they born like a boy or a girl. |
| Weight | 1 day | Weight will be measured in kg with a Beurer's body analyser scales |
| Height | 1 day | Height will be measured in cm. |
| Body mass index (BMI) | 1 day | Body mass index (BMI) will be measured in kg with a Beurer's body analyser scales |
| Length of the lower limb. | 1 day | Length of the lower limb will be measured in cm. |
| Dominant lower limb | 1 day | Dominant lower limb will be measured asking which limb would shoot a ball with. |
| Morphotype | 1 day | Morphotype (endomorph, ectomorph and mesoform) will be measured by observation |
| Trunk and lower extremity muscle strength | 1 month | Analogue dynamometry will be used as an evaluation method and will be recorded in Newtons (N) with the Saehan SKU SH5007 back, leg and chest dynamometer. |
| Satisfaction assessed by a selfcreate questionnaire | 1 day | A questionnaire specifically designed to evaluate participants' satisfaction with their experience in the study will be used once they have completed their participation. |
Countries
Spain
Contacts
STUDY_DIRECTORCristina Adillón Camón, Dra.
University Rovira i Virgili
Outcome results
None listed