Effects of balance training with visual input manipulations on balance performance and sensory integration in healthy young adults: a randomized controlled trial
Jakob Ketterer, Albert Gollhofer, Steffen Ringhof, Lorenz Assländer, Urs Granacher, Dominic Gehring · 2024
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Description
Jakob Ketterer and co-authors test whether training balance with warped vision changes how young adults stay upright. Twenty-two healthy volunteers trained for four weeks. One group did classic balance drills, while the other wore virtual reality gear that twisted their visual input, forcing their senses into conflict.
Standing sway was timed with eyes open, a trained state, and eyes closed, an untrained one. A model of the balance system split out how much each sense contributed and how the feedback loops gained. Across both groups, the visual sense's share in balance grew over the training, and one feedback gain rose too. The results probe how practice rewires the blend of sight, inner ear, and body sense that keeps us standing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jakob Ketterer, Albert Gollhofer, Steffen Ringhof, Lorenz Assländer, Urs Granacher, Dominic Gehring |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |