Validity and Reliability of the Wii Balance Board for Static Balance Assessment in Healthy Young Adults

Kaewkaen, Kitchana; Uthama, Suraphong; Ruengsirarak, Worasak; Puntumetakul, Rungthip

doi:10.21315/mjms2019.26.2.12

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“…The Wii Balance Board (WBB) is a commonly used balance assessment tool, but it needs to be clarified that the WBB has reported inconsistent validity when used to assess healthy young adults. Kaewkaen et al explore the concurrent validity and reliability of the WBB in the assessment of balance in healthy young adults [ 1 ]. The purpose of Hamed et al's study was to evaluate the effectiveness of specific exercise interventions that control mechanisms of dynamic postural stability in older adults under unstable conditions [ 2 ].…”

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[Retracted] Design and Implementation of Balance Ability Assessment Training System for Special Children Based on Education Cloud Integration

Xing

Song

2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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Many children with special needs have body balance disorders, which will not only bring inconvenience to their daily lives but also have a certain impact on their spirits, making them insecure. It will lead to a decline in their social skills, which will also seriously affect their study and work as well as reduce their quality of life. The purpose of this paper is to design and discuss a system for evaluating and training the balance ability of children with special needs based on the integration of education cloud. The balance ability evaluation module of the system performs a series of calculations on the projection coordinates of the center of gravity of the human body in various postures, and the obtained parameter values are the basis of the evaluation. This paper analyzes the role of education cloud integration in the evaluation of balance ability of special children, evaluates and trains the balance ability of special children, and verifies the feasibility of the balance ability evaluation and training system for special children. This study found that in a feasibility trial evaluating the balance ability of children with special needs, the balance stability of the tested children was improved, and the overall balance ability improved by 60%. The balance ability evaluation training system developed in this paper can effectively improve the independent standing ability of young children. Children over the age of 4 do not have any difficulties in understanding and mastering movements, and training difficulties for children are also applicable. At the same time, the results of these exercises also showed that this kind of exercise can help children maintain their balance.

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[Retracted] Design and Implementation of Balance Ability Assessment Training System for Special Children Based on Education Cloud Integration

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Song

2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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“…Several studies had demonstrated WBB's validity in static balance [7,31,33,34]. Clark et al [7] and Park et al [35] used a laboratory-grade FP to demonstrate WBB's validity in healthy people with ICC ranging from 0.731 to 0.89.…”

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“…Recently, the advent of a portable force platform designed for an electronic games -the WBB, becomes a potential complement of the FP to meet the clinical needs of objective and quanti ed balance assessments. However, most of the previous studies investigated the validation of the WBB in static balance assessment [7,[30][31][32], and there is no previous valid studies about dynamic balance assessment comparing WBB with the laboratory-grade force platform.…”

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Validity and Application of a Portable Force Platform in Assessment of Dynamic Balance Ability

Lin

Fang

Zhao

et al. 2021

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Background: Dynamic balance assessment, which requires a specialized device, is crucial in clinic to evaluate postural control comprehensively. The Nintendo Wii Balance Board (WBB), a portable force platform may be a suitable alternative to the expensive “gold standard”- the laboratory-grade force platform (FP). However, its validity in assessment of dynamic balance is still unclear. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the validity of the WBB in dynamic balance assessment.Methods: We performed three static and dynamic balance tests, including open eyes single-leg stand, close eyes single-leg stand and Limitation of Stability, on the WBB for 34 healthy participants. Trajectories of center of pressure (COP) were recorded synchronously and used to compute seven characteristics. To quantify the consistency of the two devices, we used intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) as well as visual evaluation of Bland–Altman plots.Results: The data showed a high consistency between the two devices (ICC = 0.92-0.98) under static and dynamic balance assessments, and the visual evaluation result from Bland–Altman plot was acceptable between device agreement. Moreover, in the dynamic balance task (Limitation of Stability test), the typical ranges of COP-based postural sway distances for healthy adults in medial-lateral and anterior-posterior measured by the WBB were 27.17 ± 3.88 cm and 21.13 ± 2.33 cm, respectively, indicating the validity of the WBB in assessing COP under both static or dynamic balance tasks. Conclusion: With the advantages of portability and low-cost, the valid WBB can facilitate the popularization of quantitative balance evaluation to basic hospitals. Our results provide valuable reference for clinical evaluation of balance ability.

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“…Many pieces of research have tested and proved the Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board (WBB) as an appropriate low-cost device that meets medical standards in both validity and reliability [27][28][29]. Additionally, the device also has the special characteristic that it is easy to move to different areas.…”

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Impaired Balance Assessment in Older People with Muscle Weakness Caused by Stroke

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Stroke causes a severe impact in daily life movements. It affects a static balance in the human who has an impaired balance of their movement control. Assessing the evaluation criteria can be superseded via the movement, especially the Berg Balance scale, which is the gold standard in the assessment, even bringing a motion detector. To evaluate the balance assessment in stroke patient body, the physiotherapist uses the statistical methods to analyze the data. This research proposes the classification algorithm for evaluating the balance in the body of stroke patients with muscle weakness condition. It improves the algorithm’s accuracy in data prediction for measuring the validity of regaining balance while standing. The dataset has three main factors, including personal information, a diagnosis from a physiotherapist, and the performance standing on the Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board. By evaluating with various scenario of different amount of attributes, the dataset with three attributes has the highest accuracy rate. Classifying information is used as a guideline in assessing the information on how to regain a patient’s balance control during standing. The most accurate classification method is the Artificial Neural Network with accurate 93% of the times for prediction and classification.

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Validity and Reliability of the Wii Balance Board for Static Balance Assessment in Healthy Young Adults

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

[Retracted] Design and Implementation of Balance Ability Assessment Training System for Special Children Based on Education Cloud Integration

[Retracted] Design and Implementation of Balance Ability Assessment Training System for Special Children Based on Education Cloud Integration

Validity and Application of a Portable Force Platform in Assessment of Dynamic Balance Ability

Impaired Balance Assessment in Older People with Muscle Weakness Caused by Stroke

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