Stabilometric parameters are affected by anthropometry and foot placement

Chiari, Lorenzo; Rocchi, Laura; Cappello, Angelo

doi:10.1016/s0268-0033(02)00107-9

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“…Area measures carry the advantage of being less affected by differences between different stance positions than postural control measures that only focus on COP displacements in either the medio-lateral or the anterior-posterior direction [6]. The main dependent variables were log transformed COP area and raw COP area.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Special care was given with regard to the stance position in which COP displacements were assessed. Large interindividual differences in feet positions can be found if participants are completely free to choose the stance position in which they prefer to be measured [6,33,41]. Older adults have the tendency to place their feet closer together and to have a wider angle between their feet than young adults [33].…”

Section: Spatial 2-back Working Memory Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dual-tasking postural control: Aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attention

Huxhold

Schmiedek

et al. 2006

Brain Research Bulletin

513

379

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Postural control in everyday life is generally accompanied by posture-unrelated cognitive activity. Thus, mild forms of dual-tasking postural control are the norm rather than the exception. Based on this consideration and available evidence, we propose and empirically examined, in young and old adults, a non-monotonic, U-shaped relation between the efficacy of postural control and concurrent cognitive demands that reflect opposing trends of the effects of attention focus and attentional resource competition. When instructed to perform an easy cognitive task that presumably shifted the focus of attention away from posture control, the center of body pressure (COP) excursions decreased both in young and older adults relative to a single-task baseline where the focus of attention was explicitly directed towards the postural control task itself. However, when performing more demanding cognitive tasks, older adults showed increased COP displacements, in line with the predicted Ushape function, whereas young adults did not. We outline mechanisms linking postural control to cognitive demand and suggest routes for future investigation.

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Section: Spatial 2-back Working Memory Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dual-tasking postural control: Aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attention

Huxhold

Schmiedek

et al. 2006

Brain Research Bulletin

513

379

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“…However, the examiner must observe if the distance chosen does not go beyond the shoulder's width, considered a natural position. Body stability is also inversely related to the CG's height, showing that the measures in posturography are aff ected by the anthropometric characteristics of the subjects 24 . Considering this, it is necessary to take extreme care in selecting and interpreting the measures in posturography.…”

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“…Th e standardization of the feet position is very important in investigating postural control 24 . Th is standardization can be established in relation to the feet position according to the heels' separation and to the opening angle between the feet.…”

Section: Posturography Standardizationmentioning

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Revisão sobre posturografia baseada em plataforma de força para avaliação do equilíbrio

Duarte¹,

Freitas²

2010

Rev. bras. fisioter.

518

195

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Postural Control in Children with Dyslexia: Effects of Emotional Stimuli in a Dual‐Task Environment

2017

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The aim of this study was to compare the visual exploration strategies used during a postural control task across participants with and without dyslexia. We simultaneously recorded eye movements and postural control while children were viewing different types of emotional faces. Twenty-two children with dyslexia and twenty-two aged-matched children without dyslexia participated in the study. We analysed the surface area, the length and the mean velocity of the centre of pressure for balance in parallel with visual saccadic latency, the number of saccades and the time spent in regions of interest. Our results showed that postural stability in children with dyslexia was weaker and the surface area of their centre of pressure increased significantly when they viewed an unpleasant face. Moreover, children with dyslexia had different strategies to those used by children without dyslexia during visual exploration, and in particular when they viewed unpleasant emotional faces. We suggest that lower performance in emotional face processing in children with dyslexia could be due to a difference in their visual strategies, linked to their identification of unpleasant emotional faces. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Stabilometric parameters are affected by anthropometry and foot placement

Cited by 451 publications

References 22 publications

Dual-tasking postural control: Aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attention

Dual-tasking postural control: Aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attention

Revisão sobre posturografia baseada em plataforma de força para avaliação do equilíbrio

Postural Control in Children with Dyslexia: Effects of Emotional Stimuli in a Dual‐Task Environment

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