Characteristics of Lower Limb Position Perception in Response to Environmental Information in Individuals with Low Vision
Characteristics of Lower Limb Position Perception in Response to Environmental Information in Individuals with Low Vision
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10.1007/978-3-030-68017-6_87
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2021
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T. Uno
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T. Uno
This study aimed to understand the influence of various information acquisition strategies on foot proprioceptive and obstacle avoidance patterns among individuals with pigmentary retinal degeneration. Ten adult males (age: 39.2 ± 7.9 years) with pigmentary retinal degeneration were recruited. Participants obtained obstacle information (height of obstacle: 4 cm, 12 cm, 20 cm) using four information acquisition strategies, namely: visual: straight view in front of the block (condition A), verbal: information about the height of the block (condition B), tactile: identifying the block by hand with no time limit (condition C), and a combination of verbal and tactile stimuli (condition D). They were further evaluated by the following tasks: task 1, participants reproduced the height of the obstacles by lifting their foot in a static standing posture after they recognized the height of the obstacles; task 2, After the participants acquired obstacle information in conditions A to D, they performed an obstacle step-over from a free position from where it was possible to finish the task with one step. In task 1, under conditions A and B, they showed higher toe rise and higher coefficient of variance in toe rise compared to that under conditions C and D. For task 2, the highest points of the leading and trailing feet while stepping over the obstacle were significantly higher in condition A. Our results showed that the tactile method was useful to improve the perception of the participants caused by the lack of visual information about the obstacle.