Balance remains a critical element in the evaluation and management of sports injury, with recent recommendations to integrate dual-task cognitive exercises into balancing to further challenge the body's vestibular and somatosensory systems. Dual-task balancing has yet to be examined in a sample of para-athletes....
No actionable change for audiology practice; this study concerns sports injury management in para athletes and has no direct audiology or hearing-related clinical implication.
Expanding dual-task assessment methods to para athlete populations may refine injury-risk screening tools, though this work sits outside core audiology practice.
- 01Dual-task cognitive exercises were combined with unsupported seated balance assessment in collegiate para athletes.
- 02The study focuses on sports injury management implications, not hearing or vestibular rehabilitation.
- 03Para athlete populations are underrepresented in sports science research.
- 04Findings may inform balance and cognitive load protocols in adapted sports medicine.
- PMID
- 42440927
- DOI
- 10.3389/fcogn.2026.1826820.
- Journal
- Frontiers in Cognition
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Collegiate para athletes
- Intervention
- Dual-task cognitive exercise during unsupported seated balance
Primary outcomes
Balance performance under dual-task conditions; Cognitive task performance during seated balance