30
Participants
Start Date
May 15, 2017
Primary Completion Date
November 1, 2017
Study Completion Date
April 23, 2018
Dual-task Training Fixed Priority
"Dual-task training fixed priority instructional set for four weeks. Balance training sessions of 45 minutes per day, 3 times a week for four weeks, so as to complete 9-12 hours of training warm-up improve the balance performance. This included 12 repetitions in each session for 30 minutes after a 10-minutes warm up.~Attention was focused on both postural and cognitive tasks throughout this session. In postural tasks, subjects were instructed to perform the following: walk narrow base of support with a cognitive task of counting backward by three walk narrow base of support with cognitive task of count forward by three, walk narrow base of support, step, sideways, backward avoiding the obstacles (holding a basket) with cognitive task to remember words."
Dual-task Training Variable Priority
"Dual-task training variable priority instructional set for four weeks. Balance training sessions of 45 minutes per day, 3 times a week for four weeks, so as to complete 9-12 hours of training warm-up improve the balance performance. This included 12 repetitions in each session for 30 minutes after a 10-minutes warm up.~During the first half of the training session, attention was focused on postural tasks, while during the remaining half of the session, attention was focused on cognitive tasks."
Rehabilitation Research Chair, Riyadh
King Saud University
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