ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2022
Intermittent Visual Occlusions Increase Balance Training Effectiveness.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Efficacy of sensory-based static balance training on the balance ability, aging attitude, and perceived stress of older adults in the community: a randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2024Trial
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- Postural Control During Single-Leg Stance Under Degraded and Occluded Visual Conditions in Healthy Young Adults.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- Environmental pressure and sensory uncertainty modulate free-throw performance: psychological, neurophysiological, and kinematic evidence.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Effects of stroboscopic vision training on visuomotor reaction and soccer-specific reactive agility in male collegiate soccer players: a randomized controlled intervention study.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Acute biomechanical responses to stroboscopic vision during change-of-direction tasks in elite rugby athletes.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- The effects of stroboscopic visual training on human cognitive function and motor performance: a systematic review.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Review
- Non-dominant leg joints bear greater loading during balance beam walking in 4-year-old children.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Effects of Stroboscopic Goggles on Standing Balance in the Spatiotemporal and Frequency Domains: An Exploratory Study.Journal of applied biomechanics · 2024Article
- Vision Is Not Required to Elicit Balance Improvements From Beam Walking Practice.Motor control · 2024Article
- Stroboscopic visual training: The potential for clinical application in neurological populations.PLOS digital health · 2023Review
- Visual Occlusions Result in Phase Synchrony Within Multiple Brain Regions Involved in Sensory Processing and Balance Control.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2023Article
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Abstract
Improving dynamic balance can prevent falls in humans with neurological and mechanical deficits. Dynamic balance requires the neural integration of multisensory information to constantly assess the state of body mechanics. Prior research found that intermittent visual rotations improved balance training during walking on a narrow beam, but limitations from the immersive virtual reality headset hindered balance training effectiveness overall. We theorized that intermittent visual occlusions with electrically controlled liquid crystal glasses would overcome the previous limitations of the immersive virtual reality headset and provide a means to enhance dynamic balance training efficacy. Forty healthy young individuals walked on a treadmill-mounted balance beam for 30 min (20 subjects with intermittent visual occlusions and 20 subjects with unperturbed vision). Balance performance, in number of step-offs of the beam, improved by 78% for the visual occlusions group on the same day of the training, a near fourfold improvement compared to the 21% improvement for the unperturbed vision group (
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