[Purpose] The aim of the present study was to elucidate which motor functions are most or more important for dressing performance before and after rehabilitation. [Subjects] Seventy-nine first episode stroke patients in a hospital convalescent rehabilitation ward. [Methods] The relationships between motor function of the affected upper and lower limbs, unaffected side function, trunk function, ...

Learning Outcomes The Participant Will be able to: 1. Describe the importance of the neck and trunk in somatosensory-vestibular organization. 2. Describe the concept of ankle and hip synergies. 3. Describe the difference between vestibular and somatosensory dominance in onefoot balance reactions. 4. Describe the general postural characteristics of children with movement and posture disorganizat...

Introduction In the common back pain, the need to limit the discovertebral constraints without restrict the activities of the patient led to realization for a brace of serial actions targeted on the sagittal balance : rétroposition of trunk, limitation of flexion of the spine, maintaining lordosis without constraints on the facet joints; the 4 clinical studies and experiments presented confirm ...

SIR—Falls are a major problem for the elderly and others prone to fall [1–7], occurring frequently during walking [8, 9]. Maki et al. [10] suggested that the ‘cautious’ gait pattern, characterised by reduced walking speed and shortened step length, is adopted by older people to minimise the risk of falling. Somewhat paradoxically, these changes may predispose to trips and slips [11, 12]. Step w...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of anthropometric characteristics and gender on postural balance in adults. One hundred individuals were examined (50 males, 50 females; age range 20-40 years). METHODS The following body composition measurements were collected (using bone densitometry measurements): fat percentage (% fat), tissue (g), fat (g), lean mass (g)...

OBJECTIVE To determine the predictive value of leg and trunk inclination angles at stepping-foot contact for the capacity to recover from a backward balance perturbation with a single step in people after stroke. METHODS Twenty-four chronic stroke survivors and 21 healthy controls were included in a cross-sectional study. We studied reactive stepping responses by subjecting participants to mu...