Fifteen years of wireless sensors for balance assessment in neurological disorders

A Zampogna, I Mileti, E Palermo, C Celletti, M Paoloni… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Balance impairment is a major mechanism behind falling along with environmental hazards.
Under physiological conditions, ageing leads to a progressive decline in balance control per …

Effects of exergaming on balance of healthy older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Q Fang, P Ghanouni, SE Anderson… - Games for health …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Balance is critical for older adults to perform daily activities. However, age-related declines
in balance increase the risk of falls and severe injuries, such as bone fractures and head …

[HTML][HTML] The role of neuromuscular changes in aging and knee osteoarthritis on dynamic postural control

J Takacs, MG Carpenter, SJ Garland… - Aging and disease, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic joint condition, with 30% of those over the age of 75
exhibiting severe radiographic disease. Nearly 50% of those with knee OA have …

How does lower limb respond to unexpected balance perturbations? New insights from synchronized human kinetics, kinematics, muscle electromyography (EMG) …

RTL Zhu, PZ Lyu, S Li, CY Tong, YT Ling, CZH Ma - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Making rapid and proper compensatory postural adjustments is vital to prevent falls and fall-
related injuries. This study aimed to investigate how, especially how rapidly, the multiple …

Muscular and kinematic responses to unexpected translational balance perturbation: a pilot study in healthy young adults

CY Tong, RTL Zhu, YT Ling, EM Scheeren, FMH Lam… - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Falls and fall-related injuries are significant public health problems in older adults. While
balance-controlling strategies have been extensively researched, there is still a lack of …

Age-related differences in postural control: effects of the complexity of visual manipulation and sensorimotor contribution to postural performance

DR Toledo, JA Barela - Experimental Brain Research, 2014 - Springer
Patterns of adaptive changes to the exposure to a sinusoidal visual stimulus can be
influenced by stimulus characteristics as well as the integrity of the sensory and motor …

Systematic review on the applicability of principal component analysis for the study of movement in the older adult population

J Moreira, B Silva, H Faria, R Santos, ASP Sousa - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction method that has identified
significant differences in older adults' motion analysis previously not detected by the discrete …

Effect of exercise-induced fatigue on postural control of the knee

H Hassanlouei, L Arendt-Nielsen, UG Kersting… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Muscle fatigue is associated with reduced power output and work capacity of the skeletal
muscle. Fatigue-induced impairments in muscle function are believed to be a potential …

Motor strategy during postural control is not muscle fatigue joint-dependent, but muscle fatigue increases postural asymmetry

T Penedo, PF Polastri, ST Rodrigues, FB Santinelli… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of ankle and hip muscle fatigue on motor
adjustments (experiment 1) and symmetry (experiment 2) of postural control during a quiet …

Reactive postural responses to continuous yaw perturbations in healthy humans: The effect of aging

I Mileti, J Taborri, S Rossi, Z Del Prete, M Paoloni… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Maintaining balance stability while turning in a quasi-static stance and/or in dynamic motion
requires proper recovery mechanisms to manage sudden center-of-mass displacement …