Visual Training and and Reaction Time in Tennis

University of Milan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Visuomotor Skills

Treatments: Behavioral: Normal Training; Behavioral: Visual Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03233685

Visual Training

Details and patient eligibility

About

Tennis is situational sport in which the result of the game is directly influenced by the interaction with the opponent. In fact, athletes have to respond in a short-time period to change the way of playing by fast analyzing speed, rotation and direction of the tennis ball. Therefore, it is extremely complicated to predict exactly what will happen during games and matches. According to literature goof visual skills, players can receive and process information quickly and can optimize the performance with extreme precision and dexterity. For this reason, visuomotor training aims to improve reaction times, but its efficiency during playing tennis has not yet been investigated. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate how this training method could affect the improvement of visuomotor performance in young people between 12 and 18 years old.

Full description

Two armed, parallel group, randomized control trial.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥12 years old.
• Playing career of 4 years.

Exclusion criteria

• Serious injury in the 6 mouth before the study.
• Subject that already took part to a visual training

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will perform a visual training for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Visual Training

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects will perform the normal training routine for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Normal Training