[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...

The output of the human postural control system is highly irregular, even under quiet-standing conditions. To describe the observed dynamics of human posture control, we propose a simple, analytical stochastic model, consisting of a pinned polymer. For such a system, there exists a uctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT), which provides a linear relationship between the correlations of the system a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In a randomized study of hemiparetic stroke patients with a median age of 75 years, functional recovery was significantly better in those who received additional sensory stimulation (n = 38), including electrostimulation, than in control patients (n = 40) given the same physiotherapy and occupational therapy; group differences for balance, mobility, and activities of dail...

Pronation distortion syndrome is one of the most common abnormalities in the body that causes distortions in the structures of the skeletal structures of the lower extremities and increases postural sways. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of 12-week corrective exercises on postural sways in male students with pronation distortion syndrome. In this semi experimental research...

s / Gait & Posture 46 (2016) 208–220 213 COP registrations are often complemented with EMG measures and/or measures of cortical activity, allowing a better understanding of how intermuscular coordination of balance is regulated [17–21]. Alsodirect and indirectmeasures of the attentional investment in postural control are often used, such as stimulus-response reaction times or the regularity of ...