Effects of Neck Upright Stability Training on Sports Vision of the Middle-aged and Elderly Female

• Main Authors: Yu, Yen-Sheng, 余晏昇
• Other Authors: Chou, Shih-Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36599457982736342211

碩士 === 臺北巿立體育學院 === 體育與健康學系碩士班 === 99 === Purpose: When aging, people can observe significant degenerating effects in cervical spine. Neck muscles is not only used in maintaining the stability of head posture, but it also can help improve vision capability by influencing head movements. To investigate effects of neck upright stability training on sports vision of the middle-aged and elderly women. Methods: Total 60 middle-aged and elderly women were recruited and randomly divided into two groups, 30 for the experimental group and 30 for the control group. Only 34 subjects, 19 for the experimental group and 15 for the control group, finished a 4-week neck upright stability training program, and the pre and the post tests. Sports vision was determined by a visual performance program, including four directional (left to right, right to left, up to down, and down to up) dynamic visual acuity (DVA), eye movement (EM), peripheral vision (PV), and momentary vision (MV) before and after each training program. After data reduced as the percentage of change, statistical analysis was performed for comparisons between the groups using the Mann-Whitney test (SPSS 12.0 version). The α level was set at 0.05 and p < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Results: DVA (left to right) and EM were significantly changed in the experimental group after neck upright stability training, compared with the control group. Conclusion: Through a 4-week neck upright stability training, left to right DVA and EM were significantly improved. The other directional DVA, PV, and MV also showed positive progress though not significantly.