Background: Poor balance performance and impaired postural control have been frequently reported in patients with low back pain. However, postural control is rarely monitored during the course of treatment even though poor postural control may contribute to chronicity and recurrence of symptoms. Therefore, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of a nonextensible lumbosacral orthos...

The present paper reviews the development of postural adjustments during infancy. In the control of posture, two functional levels can be distinguished. The basic level deals with the generation of direction-specific adjustments, meaning that dorsal muscles are primarily activated when the body sways forward, whereas ventral muscles are primarily activated when the body sways backward. The seco...

Postural control is a natural behavior that requires the spatial and temporal coordination of multiple muscles. Complex muscle activation patterns characterizing postural responses suggest the need for independent muscle control. However, our previous work shows that postural responses in cats can be robustly reproduced by the activation of a few muscle synergies. We now investigate whether a s...

STUDY DESIGN Recovery of postural equilibrium following bilateral voluntary arm movement was evaluated using a case-control study, with 13 subjects with chronic LBP and 13 age- and gendermatched control subjects. OBJECTIVES To evaluate control of the centre-of-pressure (COP), as a marker of the quality of control of postural equilibrium associated with voluntary arm movements, in people with ...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of computerized postural control training using whole body vibration on lower limb muscle activity and cerebral cortical activation in acute stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty stroke patients participated and were divided into groups of 10, a group of the computerized postural control training using whole body vibration (...

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with reduced postural control, which may put those with knee OA at greater risk of falling. Adults with knee OA have reduced knee proprioception (joint position sense), suggesting reduced proprioception sensation about the knee [1]. Proprioceptive acuity is a key component of postural control. Stochastic resonance (SR) stimulation has been theorized as a m...

Maintaining a multi-jointed inverted pendulum in vertical position is an extremely challenging engineering problem. However, most healthy individuals not only can stand upright with ease, they can maintain stability during motion and under some perturbations. Many studies have shown that postural control involves very complicated interactions between many subsystems – i.e. sensory, neural, moto...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of biofeedback postural control training using whole body vibration in acute stroke patients on balance and gait ability. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty stroke patients participated in this study and were divided into a group of 10, a group for biofeedback postural control training combined with a whole body vibration, one for biofeed...

Postural control is important to cope with demands of everyday life. It has been shown that both attentional demand (i.e., cognitive processing) and fatigue affect postural control in young adults. However, their combined effect is still unresolved. Therefore, we investigated the effects of fatigue on single- (ST) and dual-task (DT) postural control. Twenty young subjects (age: 23.7 ± 2.7) perf...

This special issue contains the contributions of the invited speakers to the international meeting on "Posture in the Picture, on the relevance of postural control in children with developmental disorders". During the meeting typical development of postural control was discussed from birth until adolescence, biodynamical aspects were considered, as well as phylogenetical aspects of postural con...