External relative to internal attentional focus enhances motor performance and learning in visually impaired individuals.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that visual information does not mediate external focus benefits for motor performance and learning. Implications for Rehabilitation Practitioners should use instructions that encourage visually impaired individuals who are going through rehabilitation to adopt an appropriate focus of attention for enhancing motor performance and learning of discrete or locomotion-based motor skills. Instructions that foster an external focus, relative to an internal focus, enhances performance of both discrete and continuous motor skills in individuals with visual impairment. PMID: 30735063 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research