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Kacey M. Wallace, Michael R. Brown, William C. Pannell, Jacob B. Daniels, Juliana C. Moore, Ayden K. McInnis, Paul T. Donahue and John C. Garner
Single-limb balance training is integral to preventing and rehabilitating lower extremity injuries. Previous investigations have shown that when using instability devices, differences may or may not exist in the postural sway parameters during use, depen...
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Woohyoung Jeon, Ahmed Ramadan, Jill Whitall, Nesreen Alissa and Kelly Westlake
Falls in older adults are leading causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries, negatively impacting quality of life among those in this demographic. Most elderly falls occur due to unrecoverable limb collapse during balance control in the single-limb support ...
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Florian Göttfert, Johanna Herzog, Christian Maurer-Grubinger, Gerhard Oremek, Fabian Holzgreve, David A. Groneberg and Daniela Ohlendorf
Introduction: An altered dental occlusion can also affect balance stability or mobility. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether wearing a mandibular splint, which retains the occlusion close to the centric occlusion, can increase or decrease ...
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Ting-Chun Huang, Hsing-Po Huang, Kuan-Wen Wu, Jwo-Luen Pao, Cheng-Kuang Chen, Ting-Ming Wang and Tung-Wu Lu
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 ter...
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Jaroslaw Omorczyk, Robert Staszkiewicz, Krzysztof Wrzesniewski and Ewa Puszczalowska-Lizis
Sports activities can constitute a factor in improving postural control. The aim of this study is to compare static balance in the tandem stance between female artistic gymnasts and non-training girls. This was performed with and without visual control, ...
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Andreas Lauenroth, Lars Reinhardt, Stephan Schulze, Kevin G. Laudner, Karl-Stefan Delank and René Schwesig
In competitive sports, excellent posture and stability are required for competitive performance and are largely dependent on the level of sport participation and the specific movements and forces created by the individual kind of sport. In this study, we...
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Alex Rizzato, Antonio Paoli and Giuseppe Marcolin
Background: In proprioceptive training, unstable devices produce multidirectional perturbations that must be counterbalanced by the postural control systems and core-muscle activation. We investigated whether different sizes and shapes of three gymnastic...
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Jacek Stodólka, Wieslaw Blach, Janez Vodicar and Krzysztof Mackala
To investigate the level of bilateral symmetry or asymmetry between right and left foot center of pressure (COP) trajectory in the mediolateral and anteroposterior directions, this study involved 102 participants (54 females and 48 males). Ground reactio...
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Mohammed Hossny and Julie Iskander
Learning to maintain postural balance while standing requires a significant, fine coordination effort between the neuromuscular system and the sensory system. It is one of the key contributing factors towards fall prevention, especially in the older popu...
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Veronica Cimolin, Nicola Cau, Manuela Galli and Paolo Capodaglio
Obese individuals are characterized by a reduced balance which has a significant effect on a variety of daily and occupational tasks. The presence of excessive adipose tissue and weight gain could increase the risk of falls; for this reason, obese indivi...
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