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Computerized Dynamic Posturography for Postural Control Assessment in Patients with Intermittent Claudication
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2013
Individuals with intermittent claudication exhibit poor balance compared to healthy controls. Computerized dynamic posturography is an objective method for measuring an individual's postural responses to balance disturbances. This provides an objective reflection of the person’s ability to respond to situations under which sensory stimuli are altered and unexpected perturbations occur.
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Experimental Methods to Study Human Postural Control
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2019
This article presents an experimental/analytic framework to study human postural control. The protocol provides step-by-step procedures for performing standing experiments, measuring body kinematics and kinetics signals, and analyzing the results to provide insight into the mechanisms underlying human postural control.
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An Introduction to Motor Control
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2023
Motor control involves integration and processing of sensory information by our nervous system, followed by a response through our skeletal system to perform a voluntary or involuntary action. It is vital to understand how our neuroskeletal system controls motor behavior in order to evaluate injuries pertaining to general movement, reflexes, and coordination. An improved understanding of motor control will help behavioral neuroscientists in developing useful tools to treat motor disorders, such...
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Evaluating Postural Control and Lower-extremity Muscle Activation in Individuals with Chronic Ankle Instability
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2020
Individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI) exhibit postural control deficiency and delayed muscle activation of lower extremities. Computerized dynamic posturography combined with surface electromyography provides insights into the coordination of the visual, somatosensory, and vestibular systems with muscle activation regulation to maintain postural stability in individuals with CAI.
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Assessment of Motor Balance and Coordination in Mice using the Balance Beam
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2011
Deficits in fine motor coordination can be assessed with the balance beam test. Performance on the beam is quantified by the speed at which the beam is traversed and the number of times the mouse slips on the beam.
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Each sensory source contributes information about body orientation and position, while the nervous system combines these inputs to guide corrective responses. Vestibular signals support orientation, visual information provides environmental and alignment cues, and proprioception reports body and joint position. Integrating these streams allows the brain and spinal pathways to coordinate muscle activity when sensory information changes during standing or movement.
Spinal and brain pathways connect sensory processing with coordinated muscle activation. They help convert information about body position and alignment into adjustments at the joints, allowing muscles to respond as the body moves. This coordination keeps the center of mass related to the base of support and supports stable movement rather than relying on a fixed posture.
Stability can change when sensory integration, neural coordination, or muscle responses are affected by injury, aging, or neurological disease. These conditions may interfere with how the nervous system interprets vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive information or organizes corrective activation. Researchers can examine resulting changes in postural sway, reflex responses, and performance on balance tasks to characterize the impairment.
Common assessments described for this field include measuring postural sway, examining reflex responses, and observing performance during balance tasks. Together, these approaches capture different aspects of control, including steadiness, rapid corrective reactions, and the ability to maintain stability during a defined challenge. Comparing these outcomes can help reveal how injury, aging, or neurological disease affects movement.
The topic is studied when researchers need to connect sensory integration and motor coordination with observable stability during standing or movement. Neuroscience uses it to examine nervous-system control, rehabilitation uses it to evaluate impaired movement and potential interventions, and biomechanics uses it to relate body alignment and center-of-mass control to physical performance.
Balance assessments provide measurable outcomes that can show how well a person controls posture, responds through reflexes, or performs a balance task. These findings help research teams examine the effects of injury, aging, or neurological disease and evaluate interventions intended to improve stability. In this context, reduced sway or improved task performance can serve as indicators of functional change.