초록/요약

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of multi-directional smooth pursuit eye, vestibular movement using Korean dance arm movements on the vision, balance, and gait of elderly women. The subject of the study was 30 female elderly women aged 65 years or older who participated in Korean dance and 30 comparative groups who did not participate. Based on Korean dance, the program consists of improving one-eye-to-head coordination, fixing the eye, activating the proprioceptive and vestivular system, and strengthening the gait training, and was conducted twice a week for 12 weeks, for 60 minutes. The independent variable was the presence or absence of participation in the Korean dance multi-directional smooth pursuit eye, vestibular movement training, and the dependent variables were visual field, balance, and gait. As the experimental equipment, a paperboard field of view inspection method (Jaemin Kim, Geunchang Yoo, 2002), balance (3m target return), and a pressure distribution measurement (E-mad, Germany) were used. For walking, the foot was divided into four areas, and the contact time, the contact area, the maximum force, and the maximum pressure were analyzed. This research was carried out in compliance with the research ethics after being deliberated and approved by the Ewha Womans University Bioethics Committee (IRB) (Project No.: 155-4). Data processing was performed by the independent test of the SPSS (22.0) statistical program, the analysis of the variance of the two-way allocation, ANCOVA and the pearson correlation analysis. The statistical significance level was .05. The subject's visual field was activated on the right side compared to the left side, and was mostly unbalanced. The multi-directional smooth pursuit eye, vestibular movement training in Korean dance helped to expand the visual field and balance the left and right of the visual field, and the walking ability was improved due to the increase in walking speed and use of toes. The correlation between the visual field and the walking was proved and had a positive effect on each other. Multi-directional smooth pursuit eye, vestibular movement training using arm movements in Korean dance was effective in improving the walking ability required for the elderly, as well as for the expansion and balance of the horizontal field of view. Based on these studies, it is necessary to investigate the effect of multi-directional smooth pursuit eye, vestibular movement training even for the elderly with stroke or dementia whose visual field is narrowing, and this will be a future task.