Physical counter pressure maneuvers (CPM) are movements that are recommended to
delay or prevent syncope (fainting) by recruiting the skeletal muscle pump to augment …

Impaired balance is a major contributor to falls and diminished quality of life in Parkinson's
disease, yet the pathophysiology is poorly understood. Here, we assessed if patients with …

Ankle muscle fatigue has been shown to increase body sway. In addition, body sway in quiet
upright standing is reduced when saccadic eye movements are performed. The purpose of …

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of wearing virtual reality head-mounted
goggles (VR) on body sway in young adults. We run two experiments, in which we …

The origin of continual body oscillation during quiet standing is a neural-muscular-skeletal
closed feedback loop system that includes insufficient joint stiffness and a time delay. Thus …

Human postural sway during stance arises from coordinated multi-joint movements. Thus, a
sway trajectory represented by a time-varying postural vector in the multiple-joint-angle …

Background Studies on short-term upright quiet standing tasks have presented contradictory
findings about postural control in people with Parkinson's disease (pwPD). Prolonged trial …

Embodiment and subjective experience in humanrobot interaction are important aspects to
consider when studying both natural cognition and adaptive robotics to human …

Introduction Healthy individuals with poor cardiovascular control, but who do not experience
syncope (fainting), adopt an innate strategy of increased leg movement in the form of …

The study of postural control has been dominated by experiments on the maintenance of
quiet upright standing balance on flat stationary support surfaces that reveal only limited …