The Validity of Balance Evaluation of Patients with Orthopaedic Knee Problems using Nintendo Wii®? (original) (raw)
2017, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - International
Objectives: In recent years, the Nintendo Wii ® (NW) has been widely used in the field of healthcare. There are studies in literature which have used the closed source encoded software of NW in the evaluation of balance. However, the availability of this software is limited in clinical practice. Therefore, in this study it was aimed to examine the relationship between the results of NW balance evaluation made without closed source encoded software with the results of the Kinesthetic Ability Trainer ® (KAT) and the Single Leg Stance Test (SLST). Materials and Methods: The study included 33 volunteers aged 23.85±4.62 years with a chronic orthopaedic knee joint pathology. The balance of the participants was evaluated with NW, KAT and SLST. Results: A significant correlation at a low level was seen in only 1 parameter between the balance results of NW and KAT (p<0.05). No signficant correlation was observed in the other parameters. A significant relationship was determined between the double foot NW area, the mediolateral (ML) width, affected side ML width and weight-bearing asymmetry (WBA) parameters and the SLST results (p<0.05) at a weak-moderate level (r=-0.38, r=-0.50, r=-0.36, r=-0.38). Conclusion: In conclusion, NW can be used instead of subjectve tests such as SLST. However, KAT uses a complex evaluation algorithm and provides more sensitive results. Therefore, to be able to increase the sensitivity of the NW balance evaluation system, standardised evaluation procedures should be developed.
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