One-leg stance in healthy young and elderly adults: a measure of postural steadiness?

Ankle proprioceptive acuity is associated with objective as well as self-report measures of balance, mobility, and physical function

“…Additionally, average TPPM >3.3°was associated with inability to perform single-leg stance. When explored further, it was shown that adjusting for age and sex, those with <5 s single-leg stance time (the cutoff associated with injurious falls (Jonsson et al 2004)) had significantly higher TPPM (2.8 ± 2.8) compared to those with ≥5 s (1.5 ± 1.3) (F = 26.617, p < 0.001). Overall, these findings possibly indicate physiological basis for poor performance in single-leg stance time test and a graded relationship of TPPM with the performance.…”

“…Overall, those with TPPM >2.2°consistently demonstrated poor balance, mobility, and physical function. In older persons, the single-leg stance time has been consistently shown to be associated with negative health events (Vellas et al 1997;Jonsson et al 2004;Lin et al 2004). Further, the deterioration of balance in single-leg stance in young individuals with ankle sprain is proposed to be associated with ankle instability due to proprioceptive impairment (Akbari et al 2006).…”

Unipedal Balance Is Affected by Lower Extremity Joint Arthroplasty Procedure 1 Year Following Surgery

“…The decision was made to use 10 s to indicate successful unilateral balance because it is a time-efficient measure that can be performed in high-volume clinics. Five seconds has been suggested as a single leg stance time criterion standard, however this is noticeably lower than age matched controls (17.1-24.3), thus as a result a higher standard of 10 s was selected for the cut-off in the current study [40,41,33,42].…”

“…Maintaining balance is required when switching from bilateral to unilateral standing for many activities of daily living such as walking, turning, climbing stairs, and dressing [33]. Gait analysis and balance assessments are commonly performed in TJA patients, and are critical for identifying potential impairments and falls risk [34][35][36][37].…”

Balance performance and self-perceived handicap among dizzy patients in primary health care

“…Both tandem standing and one-leg standing are considered to be static balance measures, but have an initial, dynamic aspect [27,28]. In these two measures the time in seconds, up to 30 seconds, was registered and the best result from three trials was used.…”