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Balance perturbation system to improve balance compensatory responses during walking in old persons

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Title
Balance perturbation system to improve balance compensatory responses during walking in old persons
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Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, July 2010
DOI 10.1186/1743-0003-7-32
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Amir Shapiro, Itshak Melzer

Abstract

Ageing commonly disrupts the balance control and compensatory postural responses that contribute to maintaining balance and preventing falls during perturbation of posture. This can lead to increased risk of falling in old adults (65 years old and over). Therefore, improving compensatory postural responses during walking is one of the goals in fall prevention programs. Training is often used to achieve this goal. Most fall prevention programs are usually directed towards improving voluntary postural control. Since compensatory postural responses triggered by a slip or a trip are not under direct volitional control these exercises are less expected to improve compensatory postural responses due to lack of training specificity. Thus, there is a need to investigate the use balance perturbations during walking to train more effectively compensatory postural reactions during walking.This paper describes the Balance Measure & Perturbation System (BaMPer System) a system that provides small, controlled and unpredictable perturbations during treadmill walking providing valuable perturbation, which allows training compensatory postural responses during walking which thus hypothesize to improve compensatory postural responses in older adults.

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Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Belarus 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 147 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 18%
Student > Bachelor 17 11%
Researcher 15 10%
Professor 9 6%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 26 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 19%
Engineering 26 17%
Sports and Recreations 21 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 8%
Neuroscience 12 8%
Other 20 13%
Unknown 33 21%
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