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Balance is an important factor in people with mental disabilities to enjoy an independent life. These people are weak in static and dynamic balance due to lack of development of the central nervous system and defects in the sensory-motor pathways, as well as due to having a sedentary life. Therefore, this study was performed to determine the effect of eight weeks of DNS exercises on static and dynamic balance of educable mentally retarded students.

In the current research, 26 female students aged 15-20 years with educable mentally retarded with mean age (17/19±1/50), IQ (61/15±6/07), weight (58/9±12/73) and height (157/92±6/07) and then randomly based on IQ in two groups of experimental (n = 13) and control (n = 13), Were paired. Before and after the training period, the variables of static balance, dynamic balance of the right leg and dynamic balance of the left …