Monitoring Ankle Rehabilitation With Wii Fit

The purpose of this research was to experimentally examine if the Wii Fit® (WF) could be used to monitor progress of a rehabilitation protocol for patients with chronic ankle instability (CAI). Forty-eight participants were recruited and randomly divided into three groups (healthy-control, CAI-control, and CAI-rehab). All participants were measured by the WF on double and single-leg stances at Week 1 and again at Week 4. Participants in the rehabilitation group completed six supervised ankle rehabilitation visits as well as take-home exercises. Participants in control groups did not receive ankle rehabilitative interventions. Participants in the CAI-rehab significantly improved their scores with single-leg stance after completing the intervention (p \u3c .05). It was concluded that the 4-week ankle rehabilitation protocol improved single-leg stance balance scores, and the WF may be a viable tool for monitoring rehabilitative progress. Future research should examine progress with lower extremity and core stability rehabilitations with WF