Wobble Board Rehabilitation for Improving Balance in Ankles With Chronic Instability.
Clin J Sport Med
; 26(1): 76-82, 2016 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To quantify improvements in clinical impairments using a wobble board rehabilitation protocol for chronic ankle instability (CAI).DESIGN:
Prospective randomized controlled trial.SETTING:
Laboratory. PATIENTS Thirty-four participants with "giving way" and history of ankle sprains were randomly assigned to a rehabilitation group (REH) (170.22 ± 8.71 cm; 75.57 ± 13.55 kg; 22.94 ± 2.77 years) or control group (CON) (168.57 ± 9.81 cm; 77.19 ± 19.93 kg; 23.18 ± 3.64 years).INTERVENTIONS:
Four weeks with no intervention for CON or wobble board rehabilitation for REH, consisting of 3 sessions per week of 5 repetitions. MAIN OUTCOMEMEASURES:
Dependent variables were preintervention and postintervention score on foot lift test (average number of errors), Time-in-Balance Test (TBT) (longest time), Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT)-anteromedial, medial, and posteromedial (average reach distance normalized to leg length), side hop test (fastest time), and figure-of-eight hop test (fastest time).RESULTS:
Main effects for time were significant for all measures (P < 0.05); but main effects for groups were not (P > 0.05) except for SEBT-anteromedial reach direction. Significant interactions were found for all dependent measures (P < 0.05) except for TBT (P > 0.05). Post hoc testing of significant interactions showed REH improved performance at posttest, whereas CON did not.CONCLUSIONS:
These findings demonstrate that a single intervention using a wobble board improved static and dynamic balance deficits associated with CAI. CLINICAL RELEVANCE This approach provides a potentially more economical, time efficient, and space efficient means of improving clinical outcome measures associated with CAI in patients who are physically active.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Equilibrio Postural
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Terapia por Ejercicio
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Inestabilidad de la Articulación
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Articulación del Tobillo
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Guideline
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Observational_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Revista:
Clin J Sport Med
Asunto de la revista:
MEDICINA ESPORTIVA
Año:
2016
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Article