Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention

This study examines how people adjust their stepping during straight and winding walks, finding that narrower paths and faster winding require more precise lateral control.

This study estimates the metabolic cost of lateral balance maintenance during walking and finds it is terrain-specific and increases with restricted lookahead.

This study examines how young and older adults adjust walking momentum and work during uneven terrain, finding differences in modulation strategies based on lookahead conditions and step type.

This study examines how ground reaction force impulses change with walking speed and terrain amplitude in young and older adults during uneven walking.

This tutorial presents methods to assess stabilizing feedback control of human walking using gait analysis, ranging from simple kinematics to inverse dynamics, with open-source code provided.

This study investigates how force-field perturbations and muscle vibration affect foot placement control during gait, finding that sensory augmentation leads to an after-effect but combining it with force-field perturbations does not enhance the effect further.

This study uses predictive musculoskeletal simulations to show that delayed center of mass feedback in elderly humans increases muscle co-contraction and alters balance strategies during perturbations.

This paper introduces a neuromusculoskeletal model for simulating upright standing postural control using sensor feedback, showing it can replicate physiological joint movements and reactive balance behavior.

This study examines how different auditory noise intensities and structures affect postural control dynamics, finding reduced variability only at high intensity.

The paper investigates how cortical contributions to balance recovery increase with task difficulty using neuromechanical modeling of muscle activity and EEG data.

This study investigates how light touch affects vestibular-evoked balance responses by altering sensory cue weighting in the central nervous system.

This study examines how connectivity between motor cortex and somatosensory cortex/cerebellum relates to balance performance and how cognition influences this relationship in middle-aged and older adults.

This study examines dual-task performance costs of walking and speaking in virtual environments with varying anxiety levels, finding that virtual height increases anxiety but not speech pauses.

The paper models human walking stability by combining biomechanics and neural control, showing that stable walking requires specific control gain values that depend on walking speed.

The paper investigates brain activity during whole-body motion perception in reactive balance, finding distinct cortical correlates for perception and motor function.

The paper analyzes brain-muscle networks during gait to show age-related reductions in neuromuscular connectivity and compensatory changes in individuals with impaired foot tactile sensitivity.

This study examines how older adults adapt their stepping during lateral maneuvers and how physical and perceived balance ability affect their performance.

This study measures electrocortical activity during walking on uneven terrain and varying speeds, finding distinct brain region responses to terrain difficulty and speed.

This study investigates age-related differences in cognitive flexibility during dual-task walking, finding reduced proactive and reactive control in older adults leading to increased performance costs.

This study examines how older and younger adults adjust lateral balance while walking on narrowing paths, finding that older adults show greater MoSL variability and different instability risk patterns.

This study examines how cerebrovascular health affects balance and cognitive performance during dual-tasking in older adults, finding stronger associations in balance than cognition.

The paper examines corticopostural functional and effective connectivity during quiet standing, finding increased synchronization between cortical oscillations and postural sway velocity with task difficulty.

The paper proposes a new convention for defining step parameters in non-straight walking by aligning coordinates to walking paths, showing reduced errors and consistency with straight walking concepts.

This study quantifies trunk motion during overground slips, finding significant frontal plane movement, suggesting slips involve both backward and sideways balance loss.

This study investigates how visual threat in virtual reality affects the perceived timing of postural instability onset and finds that visual threat improves judgment precision.

This study tests a vision aid in pseudo-natural environments to reduce fall risks, finding it decreases falling by up to 33% in both elderly and young adults.

The paper identifies discrete cortical control during quiet stance through beta oscillation desynchronization and rebound, supporting an intermittent control model over continuous stiffness control.

The paper introduces a novel automaticity index combining prefrontal cortex activity and dual-task performance to better quantify gait automaticity during walking.

This study investigates how vision affects the perception of postural instability onset using a Temporal Order Judgment task, finding no significant effect of visual feedback on perceived timing or precision.

This study investigates whether the perceived timing of postural instability onset differs between equal and unequal stimulus onset asynchrony distributions using a Temporal Order Judgment task.