PURPOSE Center of plantar pressure (COPP) location moves toward the forefoot as ankle plantar flexor muscles attempt to maintain postural control during single leg stance. This study evaluated relationships between frontal plane tibiofemoral joint angulation during relaxed bilateral stance and mean COPP locations during vision-denied single leg stance at 20 degrees knee flexion. METHODS Fifty...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect ankle taping intervention on postural stability in elite Judo players. A total twenty-two players participated study. For biomechanical evaluation stability, all participants performed standing tasks including narrow, normal, and wide stance conditions with both non-taping conditions, respectively. Ground reaction forces center pressure (C...

Knee flexion to 24 degrees during early stance transforms kinetic energy into potential energy of a total center of mass (TCM) position. Flexion is controlled by the musculoligamentous apparatus. Reproduction of such flexion in a new single-axis prosthesis knee unit has minimized the metabolic energy cost to the patient by a more favorable use of gravity acting upon the prosthetic segments and ...

Standing orders serve an important role in various healthcare settings by empowering nurses to implement certain procedures and activities on behalf of physicians, enabling more immediate interventions, and ultimately improving patient care. Standing orders are based on established clinical practice guidelines and are well suited for supportive interventions. Several evidence-based clinical pra...

Lucretia’s rape and her inner turmoil after the violation has been subject of countless poems, dramas, paintings, musical compositions over past two millennia. In my paper, I focus on how myth Lucretia appears Benjamin Britten’s opera, The Rape (1946). particular, would like to address 2013 Glyndebourne performance directed by Fiona Shaw (and adapted screen Francois Roussillon [2015]). will exa...

BACKGROUND Neck pain is related to impaired postural balance among patients and is highly prevalent among workers with high postural demands, for example, cleaners. We therefore hypothesised, that cleaners with neck pain suffer from postural dysfunction. This cross-sectional study tested if cleaners with neck pain have an impaired postural balance compared with cleaners without neck pain. MET...

27 The aim of this study was to determine how muscle activity and body orientation contribute to 28 the triceps surae spinal transmission modulation, when moving from a sitting to a standing 29 position. Maximal H-reflex (Hmax) and motor potential (Mmax) were evoked in the soleus 30 (SOL), medial and lateral gastrocnemius in 10 male subjects and in three conditions: passive 31 sitting, upright ...

Postural control during free stance has been frequently interpreted in terms of balancing an inverted pendulum. This even holds, if subjects do not balance their own, but an external body weight. We introduce here a virtual balancing apparatus, which produces torque in the ankle joint as a function of ankle angle resembling the gravity and inertial effects of free standing. As a first aim of th...