Reliability of the Wii Balance Board in kayak

Stefano Vando; Guillaume Laffaye; Daniele Masala; Lavinia Falese; Johnny Padulo

Reliability of the Wii Balance Board in kayak

Muscles Ligaments Tendons J. 2015 Mar 27;5(1):43-4. eCollection 2015 Jan-Mar.

Authors

Stefano Vando¹, Guillaume Laffaye², Daniele Masala¹, Lavinia Falese¹, Johnny Padulo³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Human, Social and Health Sciences University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.
² UR CIAMS, Motor Control and Perception Group, Sport Sciences Department, Université Paris-Sud, France.
³ University eCampus, Novedrate, Italy ; Tunisian Research Laboratory "Sports Performance Optimization" National Center of Medicine and Science in Sport, Tunis, Tunisia.

PMID: 25878987
PMCID: PMC4396676

Abstract

Background: the seat of the kayaker represent the principal contact point to express mechanical Energy.

Methods: therefore we investigated the reliability of the Wii Balance Board measures in the kayak vs. on the ground.

Results: Bland-Altman test showed a low systematic bias on the ground (2.85%) and in kayak (-2.13%) respectively; while 0.996 for Intra-class correlation coefficient.

Conclusion: the Wii Balance Board is useful to assess postural sway in kayak.