Effect of Different Eye Movement Training Methods on Postural Oscillations of Older Women

Background and Aims Postural control is one of the most important abilities to maintain body stability and upright posture in the elderly. This study aims to investigate the effect of different patterns of eye movement training on postural oscillations in older women. Methods This is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design using a control group. Participants were 72 older women in Mashhad, Iran (Mean±SD age= 68.7±2.4 years, weight= 67.7±4.4 kg, height=163.1±3.2 cm) who were selected purposefully and randomly divided into four groups including three experimental groups (saccade, anti-saccadic, and pursuit training) and one control group. All groups were evaluated under four different conditions of visual stimulus presentation. The training groups performed the training for 4 weeks. A repeated measures analysis of variance was used to analyze the collected data. All analyses were carried out in SPSS software, version 25. Results The results of ANOVA showed that the main effect of time for postural oscillations in the anterior-posterior and mediolateral directions was significant with the effect sizes of 0.57 and 0.492, respectively (P