- Background: Healthy elderly people have difficulties with posture and balance. Vestibular visual cues exercise and proprioception exercise could be beneficial to improve postural control in elderly.

Objective: Aim of this study was to compare the effect of vestibular visual cues and proprioception to improve postural control in elderly.

Methodology: Parallel designed, randomized clinical trail was conducted at physiotherapy department of Imran Idrees Hospital, Sialkot. Group A was given (n=22) vestibular visual cues exercise and group B (n=22) was given proprioception exercise. 44 stable elderly participants aged from 65 to 75 years were included. The following parameters were analyzed before and after training for both groups: Berg balance scale (BBS) and Clinical test of sensory organization and balance (CTSIB).

Results: The present findings revealed that there's no statistically significant difference according to BBS and CTSIB between both groups. But in CTSIB condition 2 showed significant difference that vestibular visual cues exercise group was more effective in relation to proprioception exercise group.

Conclusion: We found that both vestibular visual cues exercises and proprioception exercises are equally effective for improving postural control in elderly population. One of the intervention is not superior to the other. But CTSIB condition 1 showed that proprioception exercise group was more effective than vestibular visual cues exercise group and CTSIB condition 2 showed significant difference that vestibular visual cues exercise group was more significant than proprioception exercise group.

Index Terms- Postural control, Proprioception, Vestibular, Elderly, Balance