High-Performance Vision Training Improves Batting Statistics for University of Cincinnati Baseball Players

Clark, Joseph F.; Ellis, James K.; Bench, Johnny; Khoury, Jane; Graman, Pat

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029109

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“…It means that significant changes were observed among all participants. The number of head movements in the control group increased by 6% compared to the initial test; this result was in agreement with the previous study results which had shown an increase of 8% (17).…”

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Efficacy of Medication and Nonmedication Methods on Working Memory of Children With Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

Ahmadpanah

Haghighi

Ghaleiha

et al. 2015

Avicenna J Neuro Psych Physio

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Background: Working memory is the ability to keep and manipulate information in a short time. Children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are among the people suffering from deficiency in the active memory, and this deficiency has been attributed to the problem of frontal lobe. This study utilized a new approach with suitable tasks and methods for training active memory and assessment of its effects. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of medicinal and behavioral therapies on working memory of children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. Patients and Methods:The children participating in this study were 7 -15 years old, and were diagnosed with ADHD by the psychiatrist and psychologist based on DSM-IV criteria. The intervention group comprised 8 boys and 6 girls with the average age of 11 (± 2) years, and the control group comprised 2 girls and 5 boys with an average age of 11.4 (± 3). Three children in the test group and 2 in the control group were under medicinal therapy. Results: Training of working memory significantly improved the performance in nontrained areas as visual-spatial working memory as well as the performance in Raven progressive tests which are a perfect example of nonverbal, complicated reasoning tasks. Conclusions:The performance of working memory improved through training, and these trainings extended to other areas of cognition functions not receiving any training. Trainings resulted in the improvement of performance in the tasks related to prefrontal area. They had also a positive and significant impact on the movement activities of hyperactive children.

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“…According to previous studies, good and bad performance in this test is associated with good or bad functional performance of prefrontal cortex (17).…”

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confidence: 72%

Efficacy of Medication and Nonmedication Methods on Working Memory of Children With Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

Ahmadpanah

Haghighi

Ghaleiha

et al. 2015

Avicenna J Neuro Psych Physio

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“…7,8 Subjects were asked to perform 3 trials of single-leg stance on their dominant limbs for 10 seconds with EO, EC, and SV, created by a specialized eyewear (Nike SPARQ Vapor Strobes, Nike Inc, Beaverton, OR, USA), known as stroboscopic glasses that intermittently cycled between opaque and transparent for 100 millisecond periods (reducing visual feedback by half), which has been previously described. 9 Balance testing was performed on both a firm force plate…”

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Stroboscopic Vision to Induce Sensory Reweighting During Postural Control

Kim¹,

Kim²,

Grooms³

2017

Journal of Sport Rehabilitation

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Context: Patients with somatosensory deficits have been found to rely more on visual feedback for postural control. However, current balance tests may be limited in identifying increased visual dependence (sensory reweighting to the visual system), as options are typically limited to eyes open or closed conditions with no progressions between. Objective: To assess the capability of stroboscopic glasses to induce sensory reweighting of visual input during single-leg balance. Design:Descriptive Setting: Laboratory Participants: 18 healthy subjects without vision or balance disorders or lower extremity injury history (9 females; age = 22.1 ± 2.1 y; height = 169.8 ± 8.5 cm; mass = 66.5 ± 10.6 kg) participated. Interventions: Subjects performed 3 trials of unipedal stance for 10 s with eyes open (EO) and closed (EC), and with stroboscopic vision (SV) that was completed with specialized eyewear that intermittently cycled between opaque and transparent for 100 ms at a time. Balance tasks were performed on firm and foam surfaces, with the order randomized. Main Outcome Measures: Ten center-of-pressure parameters were computed. Results: Separate ANOVAs with repeated measures found significant differences between the 3 visual conditions on both firm (P-values =< .001) and foam (P-values =< .001 to .005) surfaces for all measures. For trials on firm surface, almost all measures showed that balance with SV was significantly impaired relative to EO, but less impaired than EC. On the foam surface, almost all postural stability measures demonstrated significant impairments with SV compared with EO, but the impairment with SV was similar to EC. Conclusions:SV impairment of single-leg balance was large on the firm surface, but not to the same degree as EC. However, the foam surface disruption to somatosensory processing and sensory reweighting to vision lead to greater disruptive effects of SV to the same level as EC. This indicates that when the somatosensory system is perturbed even a moderate decrease in visual feedback (SV) may induce an EC level impairment to postural control during single-leg stance.

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“…Whilst effects on motor performance are less researched, a pilot study by Mitroff et al (2013) showed a considerable increase in ice hockey shooting and passing performance for individuals who underwent SVT, whilst a control group saw no such improvements. Other studies have incorporated SVT as one of multiple tools in a visual training programme and found significantly increased baseball batting metrics (Clarke et al 2012) and significantly reduced concussion incidence (Clarke et al 2015). Appelbaum and Erickson's (2016) review of sports vision training techniques provides more detail on some of these studies.…”

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Stroboscopic Visual Training: a Pilot Study with Three Elite Youth Football Goalkeepers

2017

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). The present pilot study is novel in SVT research in its inclusion of qualitative data collection methods and its use of participants. Three elite, youth football goalkeepers (EG) took part in a 7-week SVT programme, and their performance on 10 measures of visual and perceptual skills was compared with three matched control participants (CG). Individual, semistructured interviews were also conducted with the EG participants prior to the post-test. In general, there were no differences in the changes from pre-test to post-test and retention test between EG and CG participants in 9 of the 10 measures. EG participants did, however, show consistent improvements in visual response time at post-test and retention test, whilst the CG participants did not. Thematic analysis of the interview data identified three themes: (1) the belief that SVT improved visual and perceptual skills, notably Breactions^, Bjudgement^, and Bfocus^, (2) the belief that SVT improved on-field goalkeeping performance, and (3) that SVT was both effortful and enjoyable. The present study provides preliminary work with implications for coaching in football goalkeeping and should be expanded with future studies that utilise larger samples and measures of motor/sporting performance.

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High-Performance Vision Training Improves Batting Statistics for University of Cincinnati Baseball Players

Cited by 102 publications

References 11 publications

Efficacy of Medication and Nonmedication Methods on Working Memory of Children With Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

Efficacy of Medication and Nonmedication Methods on Working Memory of Children With Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

Stroboscopic Vision to Induce Sensory Reweighting During Postural Control

Stroboscopic Visual Training: a Pilot Study with Three Elite Youth Football Goalkeepers

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