Background: Balance challenges are associated with not only the aging process but also a
wide variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders. However, relatively little is known …

Background: Technology devices and applications including virtual reality (VR) are
increasingly used in healthcare research and practice as tools to promote health and …

“This tenth edition of Motor Control and Learning extends and updates the major revisions in
the previous edition. The many changes in that edition included new chapters, restructured …

Following recent advances in the analysis of centre-of-pressure (COP) recordings, we
examined the structure of COP trajectories in ten children (nine in the analyses) with …

Background Cerebral palsy refers to permanent, mutable motor development disorders
stemming from a primary brain lesion, causing secondary musculoskeletal problems and …

Center of pressure (COP) measures are commonly used as indicators of balance and
postural control. At present, there are no universally accepted standards in research …

Background. Children with cerebral palsy often suffer from a lack of balance compared with
typically developing children. Because balance capacity is relevant to functional activities …

This paper aimed to review studies that assessed postural control (PC) in children with
cerebral palsy (CP) and describe the methods used to investigate postural control in this …

Analysis of the COM or COP movement has been a simplified method to illustrate the
balance disorders in static stance and gait, but has its limitation when examined alone …

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common movement disorder in children. A diagnosis of CP
is often made based on abnormal muscle tone or posture, a delay in reaching motor …