Human standing balance relies on self-motion estimates that are used by the nervous system to detect unexpected movements and enable corrective responses adaptations in control. These must accommodate for inherent delays sensory motor pathways. Here, we a robotic simulate human about ankles anteroposterior direction impose sensorimotor into control of balance. Imposed destabilized standing, but...

BACKGROUND The control of posture and balance in the elderly is a primary health concern. Postural instability directly leads to a greater incidence of falling in the elderly population. One important neuromuscular mechanism instrumental in the control of posture and balance is the reflex system. The purpose of this study was to examine the gain of the soleus H-reflex in young and elderly adult...

INTRODUCTION Postural control is essential for any movement task, but postural control strategies during one task in a specific environment may not generalize to another task or situation [1]. Thus, it is difficult to identify common postural control mechanisms across tasks. Control of balance during walking and during quiet standing likely involve both overlapping and independent control syste...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate quiet standing balance of patients with Wallenberg syndrome before and after rehabilitation. METHOD Six patients with Wallenberg syndrome were enrolled within one month after being affected by an infarct of the lateral medulla. Quiet standing balance was assessed using posturography with eyes open and closed. The assessment was repeated after the patients had undergone r...

Background: The incomplete maturation of brain in preterm children results in long-term neurodevelopmental impairment. This study aimed to investigate the static balance function in children with a history of preterm birth. Methods: Participants were 31 preterm children including 21 moderately preterm (MPT), 10 very preterm (VPT), and 20 term children aged 5.5 and 6.5 years. The cervical ves...

OBJECTIVE The purposes of the present study were to elucidate the age-related changes in single-limb standing balance and sensory compensation for maintaining single-limb standing in profoundly deaf (PD) children, and to compare them with age-matched normal-hearing (NH) children. METHODS This study involved 57 PD children, aged 4-14 years and 57 age-matched NH children. Each group was subdivi...

BACKGROUND Standing balance is imperative for mobility and avoiding falls. Use of an excessive number of standing balance measures has limited the synthesis of balance intervention data and hampered consistent clinical practice. OBJECTIVE To develop recommendations for a core outcome set (COS) of standing balance measures for research and practice among adults. METHODOLOGY A combination of ...

introduction: functional ankle instability has described as a “feeling of giving way”. balance control deficit is one of the sensorimotor impairments observed in people with functional ankle instability that has been described to damage to the afferent receptors within the ligaments and joint capsule that affected during sprain. foot orthosis can improve balance control via enhanced sensory aff...

This study aimed to examine the differences in standing balance between individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) and subjects without PD (control group), under single and dual-task conditions. A cross-sectional study was designed using a non-probabilistic sample of 110 individuals (50 participants with PD and 60 controls) aged 50 years old and over. The individuals with PD were in the early or...

OBJECTIVE The present study compared the effect of quadriceps and hamstring muscle cooling on standing balance in healthy young men. METHODS Thirty healthy young men (18-30 years) participated in the study. The participants were randomly assigned to three groups (n=10 each): quadriceps cooling (QC), hamstring cooling (HC), or control group (no cooling). Participants in the QC and HC groups re...