Older Adults: Comparing Traditional Exercise to an Interactive Technology Training

Abstract

Aims

This study compared the effect of traditional exercise training and game-based exercise by TRAZER^© on dynamic balance activities, vestibular ocular motor sensory (VOMS), falls efficacy scale-international (FES-I), and muscular performance in healthy older adults.

Methods

Twenty-two older adults (mean age: 77.59 ± 6.20 years) randomly divided into two groups (1) exercise training (ET) and (2) ET + TRAZER^©. Both groups participated in one-hour exercise sessions, three days a week for 10 wk. The ET + TRAZER^© group completed the three dynamic/agility balance assessments each day.

Results

The results showed the three TRAZER^© assessments significantly increased in the ET + TRAZER^© group. However, there was not a statistically significant difference between the groups for timed up and go (TUG), sit-to-stand (STS), and FES-I.

Conclusions

Our findings provided evidence that game-based exercise intervention improved muscular function and VOMS, especially dynamic balance and reaction time in older adults.

Keywords:

• VOMS
• balance
• FES-I
• game-based exercise

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The author(s) reported there was no funding associated with the work featured in this article.