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Official Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine 1614 Board #206 May 30, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM The Effectiveness Of Wii Fit Plus strength Training In Community dwelling Older adults Chandrasekhar Bulusu. University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX. (No relationships reported) PurPOsE: To identify whether Wii Fit Plus strength training would improve physical fitness in community dwelling older adults comparing a Wii strength-training group (Wii SG) to a control group (CG) over a twelve-week period. METhOds: 18 older adults (mean ± SD age: 71.06±10.04; BMI: 29.91±5.19) interested in exercising with Wii Fit Plus strength training were recruited from the community and randomly assigned to the Wii strength-training group (Wii SG) and control (CG). The subjects in the Wii SG performed three sets of ten repetitions for each exercise weekly twice for twelve weeks. The subjects in Wii SG started with five exercises in first week and progressed to nine exercises by the end of twelve weeks. The duration of each exercise session was 90 minutes. The subjects in CG did not participate in any kind of exercise activities. Pre, Mid and Post testing sessions were conducted to assess subjects physical fitness. The tests included dynamic handgrip strength, 30-second chair stand; 30-second arm curl, timed up and go (TUG) and gallon jug transfer tests. Data was analyzed between the Wii SG and CG using general linear mixed model and alpha level was set at p
<strong>Thursday</strong>, May 30, 2013 S320 Vol. 45 No. 5 Supplement METhOds: A total of 43 females participated (control vs. pain groups: 23 vs. 20 individuals, age 36.83±8.04 vs. 46.65±12.66 yrs, BMI 22.77±2.99 vs. 24.07±3.32, & WHR .76±.05 vs. .80±.069). As subjective measures of the pain rating, Visual Analogue Scale(VAS score 0~10; Huskisson, 1979) and Oswestry back pain disability index (ODI score 0~45; Fairbank et al., 1980) were employed. As an objective measure, a mean of Time Up and Go test(TUG; Podsiadlo et al., 1991) was employed, which is a 3m round-trip walk from the sit position (second) performing three times. A pedometer(HJ720IT, Omron; Zhu & Lee, 2010) was worn for 7 consecutive days. After running descriptive analysis, ANCOVA was applied to examine the group difference adjusted for age. To scrutinize the construct and convergent validity of the pain scales, the spearman correlations were calculated. ROC curves were calculated to determine the cut-off of pain scores for setting the walking steps with SPSS 20 and α=.05. rEsuLTs: The means of major variables by groups(control vs. pain) were as follows: Total steps: 8164±3473 vs. 7632±3586; VAS 1.00±1.04 vs. 3.25±1.89; ODI 2.96±2.27 vs. 10.05±6.07; TUG7.43±0.49 vs. 8.22±0.78, respectively. After adjusted for age, VAS, ODI, and TUG showed the statistical difference by groups with p
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