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Body?s Center of Mass Motion Relative to the Center of Pressure during Gait, and Its Correlation with Standing Balance in Patients with Lumbar Spondylosis

Ting-Chun Huang    
Hsing-Po Huang    
Kuan-Wen Wu    
Jwo-Luen Pao    
Cheng-Kuang Chen    
Ting-Ming Wang and Tung-Wu Lu    

Resumen

Lumbar spondylosis (LS) is a common degenerative spine disease that often leads to impaired motor control, sensory changes, and imbalance. The current study aimed to compare the dynamic balance control between patients with LS and healthy controls in terms of inclination angles (IA) and the rate of change of IA (RCIA) of the center of mass relative to the center of pressure (COM?COP motion) during walking and to identify the correlation between dynamic balance and standing balance in patients with LS. Eleven patients with LS and eleven healthy controls performed level walking and static standing in a gait laboratory while their whole-body motion and ground reaction forces were measured to calculate the IA and RCIA. Gait temporal?spatial parameters were also recorded. Correlations between the COP motions during standing balance and COM?COP motions during gait were quantified using Pearson?s correlation coefficients (r). In the sagittal plane, the patients increased posterior IA with decreased posterior RCIA during the double-limb support phase of gait and showed decreased anterior RCIA, with small ranges of IA and RCIA during the single-limb support phase (p < 0.05). In the frontal plane, the patients increased medial?lateral ranges of RCIA and medial IA during the double-limb support phase of gait and increased medial RCIA and ranges of IA during the single-limb support phase of gait (p < 0.05). A moderate to strong correlation was found between dynamic balance and standing balance in the patients (p < 0.05). The patients presented a conservative anterior?posterior dynamic balance control but an unstable medial?lateral dynamic balance control during walking, which may be related to the decreased gait speed. The results showed that the greater the postural sway in the patients? standing balance, the more conservative the dynamic balance control in the sagittal plane, and the greater the risk of imbalance in the frontal plane. It is thus suggested that dynamic balance control deviations during gait in patients with LS cannot be deduced solely from standing balance test data, and should thus be monitored via dynamic approaches in clinical applications.

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