Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention

This study examines how balance improves in older adults after one and ten balance training sessions, finding rapid gains in robustness but slower performance improvements and no significant changes in reflexes or co-contraction.

This study identifies gait and balance measures responsive to change in Friedreich ataxia over 12 months, finding the FARS USS and BBS most responsive across subgroups, with DGI best for children.

This study examines how cognitive load affects balance in healthy young adults during dual-task conditions, finding that cognitive tasks reduce balance ability in more challenging postural tests.

The paper identifies an ankle strategy during steady-state walking where ankle moments correct for foot placement errors and influence subsequent foot placement.

This paper compares gait variability measures between overground walking and self-paced treadmill walking in healthy subjects and Parkinson's patients, finding significant errors in treadmill measurements for patients.

This study shows that energy optimization during walking is primarily an implicit process, with participants adapting to energy-efficient gaits without conscious awareness.

This study examines cortical network interactions during reactive balance in older adults, finding distinct associations between prefrontal-motor and somatosensory-motor coherence with balance function and fall risk.

This study uses visual perturbations to assess balance control in Parkinson's disease patients, finding impaired neuromuscular stability but intact visuomotor control.

This study shows that vestibular contributions to gait vary with stabilization demands, not just gait stability, as evidenced by changes in coherence and local dynamic stability during different walking conditions.

This study shows that similar sensorimotor transformations control balance during standing and walking, using delayed feedback of center of mass kinematics.

The paper investigates beta rebound in EEG during postural recovery from support-surface perturbations, finding it lasts up to three seconds and occurs before motion recovery.

The paper analyzes postural sway data from two groups of seven people each, finding age-related differences in variability and non-Gaussian distribution features.

This study shows that long-term balance training improves feedback control of perturbed balance in older adults by altering muscle activation patterns.

This study examines how attention load affects posture balance control through experimental and computational analysis.

The paper introduces a method using H-reflex stimulation to induce postural perturbations and analyze balance control mechanisms during falling.

This study examines if increased gait variability improves stability before an expected perturbation, finding increased step width variability but no correlation with stability.

This paper introduces methods to stratify and forecast nervous system pathology using causal prediction models and motor timing analysis from walking tasks.

This study investigates whether downward gazing enhances feedback control of posture during walking, showing it improves steadiness without requiring accuracy.

This study analyzes postural sway variability across timescales, showing non-Gaussian distributions and cascade dynamics in quiet standing, with changes under destabilizing conditions.

This study investigates how visual guidance affects postural stability by analyzing temporal correlations and standard deviation in postural fluctuations across different viewing distances.

This paper introduces a trunk displacement index (TDI) to quantify motor impairment in Parkinson's disease, showing it correlates with clinical scores and detects drug-induced state changes.

This study identifies movement synergies during walking that differentiate healthy adults in gait adaptability across speeds and examines their moderating effect on arm-swing smoothness.

The paper investigates how foot placement and ankle moments contribute to gait stability during walking under different constraints.

The paper uses multifractal analysis to differentiate reactive and proactive postural control mechanisms by examining non-Gaussian cascade processes in center of pressure fluctuations.

This study examines how trunk control differs during walking with wide and narrow step widths, finding distinct kinematic and neuromuscular responses to each.

The paper shows that visual effort affects postural cascade dynamics, with greater oculomotor strain leading to stronger postural adjustments.

This study examines how different frequencies of rhythmic acoustic stimulation affect gait kinematics and trunk stability in healthy elderly individuals, finding that high frequencies and cadence-matched stimulation improve stability.

The paper shows that stringent postural tasks recruit shorter-timescale processes into non-Gaussian cascade dynamics, with specific statistical signatures observed in postural sway.

This study shows that cortical beta power increases with perturbation difficulty and decreases with better balance ability during reactive balance recovery.

This study compares postural sway in individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and healthy controls during various standing conditions, finding greater sway in mTBI participants.