2016
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-016-0515-z
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Specificity of Balance Training in Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Abstract: In healthy populations, balance training can improve the performance in trained tasks, but may have only minor or no effects on non-trained tasks. Consequently, therapists and coaches should identify exactly those tasks that need improvement, and use these tasks in the training program and as a part of the test battery that evaluates the efficacy of the training program. Generic balance tasks-such as one-leg stance-may have little value as overall balance measures or when assessing the efficacy of specific tra… Show more

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“…Based on the removal of these items, the maximum obtainable result was seven, categorized as follows: 6-7 = "excellent quality"; 5 = "good quality"; 4 = "moderate quality"; 0-3 = "'poor quality," consistent with previous exercise intervention reviews. 15…”
Section: Methodological Qualitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Based on the removal of these items, the maximum obtainable result was seven, categorized as follows: 6-7 = "excellent quality"; 5 = "good quality"; 4 = "moderate quality"; 0-3 = "'poor quality," consistent with previous exercise intervention reviews. 15…”
Section: Methodological Qualitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While these reductions are statistically significant, the fact that greater reductions in falls incidence are not seen may be explained by the fact that general exercise interventions often lack specificity to the balance recovery mechanisms that are needed following balance loss, such as compensatory stepping, counter rotation or grasping actions [25, 26]. Balance maintenance requires a complex interaction of several mechanisms and hence, improved balance control in one task in particular is not likely to be of benefit during other tasks [27]. Accordingly, only negligible associations between static posturography and dynamic stability performance (forward lean-and-release and slip/trip recovery tasks) have been reported [28–31].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Por un lado, el programa de ejercicios usado en nuestro estudio y en el de los otros estudios antes mencionados, se focalizaron en el trabajo de los miembros inferiores; y en relación a esto, reciente evidencia indica que para mantener o mejorar el equilibrio estático/dinámico es importante también incorporar ejercicios de la musculatura de tronco 33 . Por otro lado, ha sido demostrada una especificidad en el entrenamiento del equilibrio 34 . Esto último podría explicar que se hayan visto solo mejorías del equilibrio dinámico y no del estático, debido a que los ejercicios utilizados fueron en su mayoría de características dinámicas.…”
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