Clinical Trials Logo

Clinical Trial Summary

Enhanced sports performance, in our current world, is being pushed at the professional level and down to school-age children as well. Money is being spent on lessons and equipment to enhance performance. One new method to enhance performance is stroboscopic vision goggles. The glasses lenses flicker removing visual information for a brief moment. The claim is that they train connections between the eyes, brain, and body. We want to see if this product truly does enhance visual performance during a softball season for high school girls.


Clinical Trial Description

In today's sports world, every strategy to perform at the highest level is needed. Current literature is demonstrating enhanced sports performance using stroboscopic vision training.1,2,5 The objective of this randomized controlled trial is to measure the effect of a stroboscopic visual training in a high school softball season in comparison to controls. Athletes in the control group will go through normal practice drills for hitting and fielding. The stroboscopic training (experimental group) will use the strobe glasses during hitting and fielding drills two times a week in practice. The brand of strobe glasses is Senaptec Strobe. Athletes in both the experimental and control groups will have their vision assessed at the beginning of the season and end by The West Texas Vision Center. Measurements for vision will include developmental eye movement, vergence ranges, Randot stereopsis test, accommodative ranges, acuity, and stereo scores. On-field performance measurements will be collected for batting statistics including on-base percentage, batting average, slugging percentage, and hard-hit ball percentage in both the experimental and control groups. The current year batting statistics will be compared with the prior year statistics if enough at-bats occurred. In addition, to the vision and on-field hitting performance proprioception balance using the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) will be measured at the beginning of the season and end for both groups. Our data will provide quantified information for coaches, athletes, and health care providers concerning the benefits of the strobe glasses warrant buying to enhance sports performance. Additionally, we wish to determine whether visual-motor and proprioception balance changes occur after the training. ;


Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT04309188
Study type Interventional
Source Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Contact
Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date April 1, 2021
Completion date December 29, 2024

See also
  Status Clinical Trial Phase
Completed NCT05436821 - The Effect of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Sportive Performance. N/A
Completed NCT05711069 - Core Stabilization Programme on Kicking Velocity and Performance in Male Adolescent Football Players N/A
Completed NCT05505786 - The Effects of Increased vs. Traditional Squat Stance Width on Performance Indices in Elite Rugby League Players N/A
Completed NCT04090541 - Effects of Elastic Therapeutic Tapes on Performance With Healthy Subjects N/A
Completed NCT04642144 - Effect of Infusion of Yerba Mate on Oxidative Stress, Physiology, and Performance of Trained Cyclists N/A
Completed NCT04075929 - Short or Long High Intensity Training N/A
Completed NCT02443701 - Light Therapy and Electrical Stimulation on Functional Performance in Volleyball Athletes N/A
Completed NCT05989815 - Effect of Whole-body Photobiomodulation on Muscular Performance Enhancement. N/A
Completed NCT03947801 - Dairy Consumption During a High-intensity, High-volume Training Week in Young Athletes N/A
Completed NCT05452460 - Mindfulness Training, Mental Fatigue, Neurocognitive Functions and Sport Performance N/A
Not yet recruiting NCT06365320 - Association Between Training Load and Lactate and Other Metabolites Analyzed by Metabolomic and Proteomic Techniques N/A