The effects of errorless psychomotor training in the Y balance lower limb reaching task
Mengjiao Fan1,2, Thomson W L Wong3
1School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Building for Interdisciplinary Research, The University of Hong Kong, 3/F, 5 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Abstract:
This study investigated the training effect of errorless psychomotor training, a motor training method with perceptual, attentional, and psychological manipulation, in a balance-related, lower limb reaching task (Y balance reaching task) on dynamic balance by young adults. Thirty-nine participants (Mean age = 27.03 years, SD = 2.64 years) were trained with different psychomotor training methods in the Y balance reaching task. Results illustrate that errorless psychomotor training significantly improved the participants' dynamic balance and proprioceptive abilities. Additionally, gaze fixation duration on target during reaching decreased after errorless psychomotor training, suggesting that errorless psychomotor training could decrease visual information demand and be concurrently compensated by up-weighting on proprioception. This multisensory reweighting and cross-modal attention could contribute to the improvement of dynamic balance ability in sports.
