Review of safety and mobility issues among older pedestrians

I Tournier, A Dommes, V Cavallo - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2016 - Elsevier
Although old people make up an extremely vulnerable road-user group, older pedestrians'
difficulties have been studied less extensively than those of older drivers, and more …

Diabetes and postural stability: review and hypotheses

C Bonnet, C Carello, MT Turvey - Journal of motor behavior, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Among the complications associated with diabetes mellitus is postural control. The authors
reviewed 28 studies in the literature that focused on the magnitudes of postural sway that …

Influence of gymnastics training on the development of postural control

C Garcia, JA Barela, AR Viana, AMF Barela - Neuroscience letters, 2011 - Elsevier
This study investigated the influence of gymnastics training on the postural control of
children with and without the use of visual information. Two age groups, aged 5–7 and 9–11 …

Changes in postural control in hemiplegic patients after stroke performing a dual task

L Bensoussan, JM Viton, M Schieppati… - Archives of physical …, 2007 - Elsevier
Bensoussan L, Viton JM, Schieppati M, Collado H, Milhe de Bovis V, Mesure S, Delarque A.
Changes in postural control in hemiplegic patients after stroke performing a dual task …

Joint coordination in young and older adults during quiet stance: effect of visual feedback of the center of pressure

SMSF Freitas, M Duarte - Gait & posture, 2012 - Elsevier
How aging affects body sway and joint coordination during quiet standing was investigated
under two visual feedback conditions provided on a monitor screen: fixed and moving cursor …

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 …

Aging‐related changes in cortical mechanisms supporting postural control during base of support and optic flow manipulations

BR Malcolm, JJ Foxe, S Joshi… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioral findings suggest that aging alters the involvement of cortical sensorimotor
mechanisms in postural control. However, corresponding accounts of the underlying neural …

Reliability of center of pressure excursion as a measure of postural control in bipedal stance of individuals with intellectual disability: A pilot study

RC Pineda, RT Krampe, Y Vanlandewijck… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The high prevalence of postural instability in individuals with intellectual disability (ID)
warrants the need for reliable and practical postural control assessments. Stabilometry is a …

Postural reactions following forward platform perturbation in young, middle-age, and old adults

PB De Freitas, CA Knight, JA Barela - Journal of electromyography and …, 2010 - Elsevier
The aim of the study was to examine how individuals of different ages react to forward
balance perturbations. Thirty-six volunteers, divided into four groups [young (YA), middle …

Roles of age, length of service and job in work-related injury: a prospective study of 446 120 person-years in railway workers

N Chau, P Wild, D Dehaene, L Benamghar… - Occupational and …, 2010 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives Because work-related injuries are common and yet the mechanisms through
which various types of injuries relate to age, length of service and job remain unknown, this …