Veldkamp, R. (2015) Effects of exergaming on goal-directed postural weight-shifting control in healthy elderly. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Postural control is often reduced with increasing age. Exergames (a combination of exercising and gaming) have rapidly gained interest as a training tool to improve balance ability in elderly. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effects of exergaming on dynamic balance as measured with a goal-directed weight-shifting test in healthy elderly after a short 2 day intervention with a recently developed exergame. A second aim was to establish whether improvements in weight-shifting control after training specifically mediolateral weight-shifting transferred to other directions. Participants following the exergame training (n=13) were compared to a control group (n=10). Multilevel modelling statistics was used to examine intervention effects on the weight-shifting test in general and in various directions separately. No intervention effects were found for the outcome measures of the weight-shifting test in general or in the training specific (mediolateral) direction. This indicates that a 2 day exergame training is insufficient to enhance weight-shifting performance in healthy elderly. Suggested main reason for the lack of improvement is the duration of the intervention, which was only 45 minutes. However, an effect of the intervention was found on the time it took participants to stabilise their centre of pressure in the anterior-posterior direction. This result tentatively suggests that the exergame training did result in higher confidence and perhaps more control near the limits of stability.
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Lamoth, C.J.C. and Caljouw, S.R. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 04 May 2022 07:34 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2022 07:34 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3200 |
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