Efficacy of Visual Training in Beach Tennis

Sponsor

Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Other)

Overall Status

Recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT04384302

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Location

Arm

29.6

Anticipated Duration (Months)

0.3

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Visual Performance	Other: Visual training	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

10 participants

Allocation:

N/A

Intervention Model:

Single Group Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Supportive Care

Official Title:

Efficacy of Visual Training in Beach Tennis - a Pilot Study

Actual Study Start Date :

May 13, 2020

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Jun 30, 2022

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Oct 31, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: 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.	Other: Visual training Pre-defined visual training protocol including the optometrical unit exercises

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: 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.

Other: Visual training

Pre-defined visual training protocol including the optometrical unit exercises

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Optomechanical reaction time [8 weeks]
The reaction time between the visual stimulus and the motor reaction

Secondary Outcome Measures

Static visual acuity [8 weeks]
Best-corrected visual acuity in static conditions expressed in logMAR
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]

Other Outcome Measures

The pace of macular fixation [8 weeks]
Checking the pace of macular fixation in the predefined text of equal lenght of words.
Reading rate during the optokinetic task [8 weeks]
Checking the reading rate during the optokinetic task.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

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

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Department of Optics and Photonics	Wrocław		Poland	50-370

Sponsors and Collaborators

Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Wrocław University of Science and Technology

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT04384302

Other Study ID Numbers:

ST001.2020

First Posted:

May 12, 2020

Last Update Posted:

Mar 29, 2022

Last Verified:

Mar 1, 2022

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

Plan to Share IPD:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Mar 29, 2022