Efficacy of Visual Training in Beach Tennis

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: Visual Performance
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Visual training

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 10
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

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

Participation Criteria

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

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

1

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	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	Best-corrected visual acuity in static conditions expressed in logMAR	8 weeks
Dynamic visual acuity	Best-corrected visual acuity in dynamic conditions expressed in logMAR	8 weeks
Overall performance during sparing match	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	Checking the pace of macular fixation in the predefined text of equal lenght of words.	8 weeks
Reading rate during the optokinetic task	Checking the reading rate during the optokinetic task.	8 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Study record dates

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