Immediate Effects of Pencil Push-Up Exercise on Visual Accommodation Skills in Amateur Badminton Players: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Phase 1

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy male and female adults aged between 18-25 yearsnormal eye functionplay badminton 3 times per weekused to attend badminton competition at university level; Racquet sports; Vision, Ocular; Visual Acuity; Sports; Exercise Therapy; Athletes; Accommodation, Ocular

• Registration Number: TCTR20240531002
• Lead Sponsor: /A

Brief Summary

A single session of pencil push-up exercise acutely enhanced visual accommodation skills, specifically amplitude of accommodation and accommodative facility, in amateur badminton players. This suggests that visual accommodation training methods like pencil push-up could improve visual performance in sports.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Completion: 2022-03-31
• Study Start: 2024-05-31
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 28

Inclusion Criteria

1) be active members of a university badminton club, 2) regularly engaged in badminton practice for a minimum of 3 hours per day and 3 days per week, 3) not pursuing badminton as a professional career, 4) no prior exposure to similar visual training interventions, 5) best corrected monocular visual acuity with a contact lens of 20/25 or better at far and near using the Snellen chart at 6 meters for far distance and reduced Snellen charts at 14 inches for near distance

Exclusion Criteria

1) no history or presence of the following conditions diagnosed by an optometrist such as strabismus (constant misalignment of the eyes), amblyopia (lazy eye), refractive surgery (e.g., LASIK), manifest or latent nystagmus (involuntary eye movements), and 2) no history of any systemic diseases known to affect vision, such as brain injury or neurological disorders impacting vision and movement.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Amplitude of accommodation 10 minutes the Royal Air Force rule ,Accommodative facility 10 minutes a reduced Snellen chart card ,Near point of convergence 10 minutes a single black dot target

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
the rate of treatment compliance 10 minutes record in the logbook,dropout to the intervention 10 minutes record in the logbook,safety 10 minutes record in the logbook