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2019
de Bruin
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Senso-Study
Playing Exergames Facilitates Central Drive to the Ankle Dorsiflexors During Gait in Older Adults; a Quasi-Experimental Investigation
The aim of this study was to investigate whether exergame training with the Senso affects neuronal drive, here measured by EMG-EMG coherence in the tibialis anterior muscle during walking. Neural drive basically means that "the brain talks to the body" or the connection between the brain and the body. Twenty seniors were included in the study. The study participants performed 18 training sessions on the Senso of 20 minutes each (three times per week for six weeks). The following training games were used for training: "Simple", "Targets", "Divided", "Simon", "Flexi", "Snake", "Seasons", "Tetris". The results showed an improvement in the neural drive of the lower extremities after training with the Senso. Furthermore, an improvement of the gait pattern ("minimal toe clearance") was shown.