Efficacy of Visual Training in Beach Tennis

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Visual Performance
• Interventions: Other: Visual training

• Registration Number: NCT04384302
• Lead Sponsor: Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Brief Summary

The proposed protocol is going to study the importance of wide spread of visual functions defined by but not limited to visual perception, visual function, visual exploration, involved in the performance of beach tennis. The investigators intend to examine the basic and important visual function that are required for the better performance in the field. The aim is to assess the efficacy of general training that uses the visual channel as the main one. The investigators suspects the improvement in the visual and motor skills after a predefined 8 weeks of visual training.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-05-07
• Study First Posted: 2020-05-12
• Study Start: 2020-05-13
• Status Verified: 2023-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-02-22
• Last Update Posted: 2023-02-24
• Primary Completion: 2023-06-30
• Study Completion: 2023-10-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

• experienced beach tennis player
• participants able and willing to participate in the study (including telemedicine supervision during the training phase)
• known and using full spectacles correction or its equivalent in contact lens correction

Exclusion Criteria

• inability to give an informed consent
• any disease that causes visual opacity that unable to perform visual training
• participant unable to conduct full visual training course of the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Visual training	Visual training	Pre-specidied visual training methods that use: the Marsden ball, tables that uses green-red visual stimuli, physical reation in response to the visual stimuli that uses the flippers or the preselected distances. One set of exercises per week was prepared. Each visual training will last for 15 minutes and should be performed by the participant in their home (using the telemedicine devices to control the conduction of each exercise) 3 times a week.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Optomechanical reaction time	8 weeks	The reaction time between the visual stimulus and the motor reaction

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Dynamic visual acuity	8 weeks	Best-corrected visual acuity in dynamic conditions expressed in logMAR
Overall performance during sparing match	8 weeks	Overall performance of the player during the supervised match \[percentage of properly conducted series of moves specific to rocket sports\]
Static visual acuity	8 weeks	Best-corrected visual acuity in static conditions expressed in logMAR

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Optics and Photonics; 🇵🇱 Wrocław, Poland