INTRODUCTION: Balance is very important in daily living, but there are practically no balance evaluation methods which fulfill scientific criteria and are available to the fitness community and other groups. The aims of this paper are to determine if the MFT-S3-Check, a system to measure balance, is scientifically objective, valid and reliable; and to establish norms for the MFT S 3-Check system. METHODS: Reliability was evaluated with 30 subjects in two testing sessions on two different days. Objectivity was determined by having two different test administrators test 10 subjects. Norms were generated from the data of over 5000 subjects (8 - 70 years of age). Validity was checked by comparing norms to data collected from 758 tests performed on ski racers (10 - 18 years of age). RESULTS: The objectivity and reliability tests for the sensor motor and stability indexes produced correlations which were moderate to very high. Norms were created for all age groups (female, male). The ski racers had significantly better values than the norms. DISCUSSION: The MFT S 3-Check fulfills the scientific criteria and is in use in fitness settings and in physiotherapy.
INTRODUCTION: Balance is very important in daily living, but there are practically no balance evaluation methods which fulfill scientific criteria and are available to the fitness community and other groups. The aims of this paper are to determine if the MFT-S3-Check, a system to measure balance, is scientifically objective, valid and reliable; and to establish norms for the MFT S 3-Check system. METHODS: Reliability was evaluated with 30 subjects in two testing sessions on two different days. Objectivity was determined by having two different test administrators test 10 subjects. Norms were generated from the data of over 5000 subjects (8 - 70 years of age). Validity was checked by comparing norms to data collected from 758 tests performed on ski racers (10 - 18 years of age). RESULTS: The objectivity and reliability tests for the sensor motor and stability indexes produced correlations which were moderate to very high. Norms were created for all age groups (female, male). The ski racers had significantly better values than the norms. DISCUSSION: The MFT S 3-Check fulfills the scientific criteria and is in use in fitness settings and in physiotherapy.
Authors: Simon Haslinger; Daniela Huber; David Morawetz; Cornelia Blank; Johanna Prossegger; Tobias Dünnwald; Arnold Koller; Christian Fink; Arnulf Hartl; Wolfgang Schobersberger Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2019-05-06 Impact factor: 3.390
Authors: Oana Patricia Zaharia; Dominik Hans Pesta; Pavel Bobrov; Yuliya Kupriyanova; Christian Herder; Yanislava Karusheva; Kálmán Bódis; Gidon Josia Bönhof; Johannes Knitza; David Simon; Arnd Kleyer; Jong-Hee Hwang; Karsten Müssig; Dan Ziegler; Volker Burkart; Georg Schett; Michael Roden; Julia Szendroedi Journal: J Clin Endocrinol Metab Date: 2021-03-25 Impact factor: 5.958