Efficacy of Visual Training in Beach Tennis

February 22, 2023 updated by: Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Efficacy of Visual Training in Beach Tennis - a Pilot Study

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.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

10

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Poland
      • Wrocław, Poland, 50-370
        • Recruiting
        • Department of Optics and Photonics

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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 Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / 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

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Optomechanical reaction time
Time Frame: 8 weeks
The reaction time between the visual stimulus and the motor reaction
8 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

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

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
The pace of macular fixation
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Checking the pace of macular fixation in the predefined text of equal lenght of words.
8 weeks
Reading rate during the optokinetic task
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Checking the reading rate during the optokinetic task.
8 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

May 13, 2020

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

June 30, 2023

Study Completion (Anticipated)

October 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 17, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 7, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

May 12, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 24, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 22, 2023

Last Verified

February 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • ST001.2020

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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