Effectivity of Slackline-Training in Physiotherapy

THIM - die internationale Hochschule für Physiotherapie

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers; Persons With no Known Significant Health Problems

Treatments: Device: Slackline vs. standing-on-1-leg vs. control; Device: Slackline; Device: Fix visual anchor; Device: Wobbling Board; Device: Moving visual anchor; Device: Post-training; Device: Pre-training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02218086

KEK-ZH-2014-0107 (Registry Identifier)

UCP-2014-0107

PB 2019-00009 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Slacklines have been established in the last few years as a training equipment in sports such as climbing, skiing and others to increase postural control. Furthermore, slacklines are used in physiotherapy in terms of stabilizing training such as wobbling boards.

However, if slackline training is effective in rehabilitation has not been investigated yet. Therefore, to goal of this study will be to investigate the effectivity of slackline training in physiotherapy compared to a wobbling board with a single tilting axis.

Outcomes will be electromyographic-data and the kinetics of the whole body.

Full description

Comparing beginners pre-training (less than 1 hour of slackline training) to post-training (9 times 30 minutes of individual, controlled training) to investigate the effects of balance training on a slackline.

Comparing beginners (less than 1 hour of slackline training) to professionals (more than 100 hours of slackline training) to investigate differences in balance strategies.

Comparing professionals during slacklining under two different conditions of their visual anchor: fix vs. moving. This to investigate the role of the visual system during balance reactions.

Comparing slackline training versus a demanding training standing-on-1-leg. We do compare Y-balance-performance, performance on the MFT challenge disc, each compared with simultanousely recording body Sway (lower trunk) with SwayStar.

Muscle activity will be investigated by absolute amplitude (mV) and frequency to get an idea of which muscle fibers are acting during the task and how the activation pattern may change through motor learning.

Body kinematics should show movement strategies especially differences in roll and pitch control of the body.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• young healthy, 18-30 years old
• small operations on muscle-skeletal-system on upper extremities
• birth control pill

Exclusion criteria

• any actual injuries on lower extremities
• injuries on lower extremities less than one year back
• operations of muscle-skeletal-system at shoulder/neck, trunk/pelvis and lower extremities
• fear of falling
• any medications
• cardiac pacemaker or cardiac arrhythmia
• pregnancy
• skeletal anomaly
• appendicitis less then 2 years back

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

professionals

Experimental group

Description:

balancing on the slackline / wobbling board 3 times by 30 seconds balancing on the slackline with a fix visual anchor / moving visual anchor 3 times by 30 seconds

Treatment:

Device: Fix visual anchor

Device: Wobbling Board

Device: Moving visual anchor

Device: Slackline

beginners

Experimental group

Description:

balancing on the slackline / wobbling board 3 times by 30 seconds pre-training compared to post-training

Treatment:

Device: Post-training

Device: Pre-training

Device: Slackline vs. standing-on-1-leg vs. control

Device: Wobbling Board

Device: Slackline