Age-related changes of single-limb standing balance in children with and without deafness

Systematic Review and Proposal of a Field-Based Physical Fitness-Test Battery in Preschool Children: The PREFIT Battery

“…During our search we identified a number of studies that did not meet the inclusion criteria or did not study reliability, validity or relationship with health of fitness tests, but used the handgrip-strength [43][44][45][46][47][48] and standing longjump tests [41,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57] for measuring musculoskeletal fitness, different versions of the shuttle-run test for measuring speed/agility [30,41,49,51,[55][56][57], or the one-leg-stance test (different versions) for measuring balance [41,53,55,58,59] in preschool children. No problems were reported during testing sessions.…”

Balance ability of 7 and 10 year old children in the population: Results from a large UK birth cohort study

“…A variety of different methods have been used ranging from simple tests such as single-leg stance and standing on foam [2][3][4], to standardised tests such as the Paediatric Clinical Test of Sensory Interaction and Balance [5] or the balance subtest of the BruininksOseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency [6][7][8][9]. Force-platforms and Computerised Dynamic Posturography (CDP) have also been used to assess both static and dynamic balance [10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

The effect of saccular function on static balance ability of profound hearing-impaired children

“…Angular velocity, which is caused by body or head rotation, is detected by the semicircular canals [1]. The cochlea and vestibule are anatomically and functionally related with each other and are the sensory receptors of the auditory and vestibular systems, respectively; any dysfunction of each or both of them may result in vestibular disorder and subsequent deficit in balance function [2][3][4][5][6]. From the point of view of developmental studies, young children in their efforts to maintain their postural stability tend to rely on visual sense and begin to gradually use somatosensory and vestibular inputs, through which between 7 and 10 years of age, responses similar to those of adults will be observed [3,[5][6][7].…”