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Substantiating Appropriate Motion Capture Techniques for the Assessment of Nordic Walking Gait and Posture in Older Adults
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2016
The aim was to substantiate optimal use of data collection techniques for Nordic walking gait and posture analysis. Three-dimensional motion capture should be used during short duration analysis (i.e. single gait cycle), while accelerometry should be employed for longer duration analysis (i.e. repeated cycles) like a 6 Minute Walk Test.
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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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Assessing Forelimb Function after Unilateral Cervical SCI using Novel Tasks: Limb Step-alternation, Postural Instability and Pasta Handling
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2013
Three new behavioral tests (forelimb step-alternation, postural instability test, pasta handling test) for evaluating forelimb function after cervical spinal cord injury in rodents are described.
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An Instrumented Pull Test to Characterize Postural Responses
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2019
Impairment of postural reflexes, termed postural instability, is difficult to quantify. Clinical assessments such as the pull test suffer issues with reliability and scaling. Here, we present an instrumented version of the pull test to objectively characterize postural responses.
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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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Changes in muscle tension can provide information about a person’s physical state and may also shape how an emotional condition is expressed or perceived. In psychological research, posture is therefore considered alongside emotion, stress, and attention rather than treated as an isolated visual cue. Examining tension helps connect bodily organization with internal processes and observable interpersonal behavior.
Body orientation indicates how a person is positioned in relation to others or the surrounding situation, while movement readiness reflects whether the body appears prepared to act. These features can influence interpretations of attention, engagement, or interpersonal stance. Their meaning depends on the social context, so researchers avoid treating one orientation or readiness pattern as universally meaningful.
Perceived openness or defensiveness helps observers form impressions during social interaction. A posture may be interpreted as more receptive, guarded, or resistant depending on how the body is arranged and what is happening around it. Psychology examines these impressions as part of social perception, recognizing that observers interpret bodily cues within a broader interpersonal context.
Postural signals do not carry a fixed meaning independently of context. Observers combine bodily information with the surrounding social situation when judging emotion, attention, or interpersonal intent. Consequently, researchers studying body postures consider the relationship between the observed arrangement and the interaction in which it occurs, rather than assigning one interpretation to every similar bodily pattern.
Psychologists examine posture alongside emotional expression, attention, stress, and nonverbal communication. The analysis focuses on how bodily arrangements and positions relate to physical states, social signals, and psychological processes. This approach can clarify how bodily states shape social perception and how posture functions within interpersonal interaction, without reducing complex experiences to a single bodily cue.
Applications include social and clinical psychology, where posture can inform the analysis of behavior and therapeutic communication. Researchers also consider it in human-computer interaction and in studies of how bodily states influence social perception. These settings use posture as one source of information about interaction, attention, emotion, and communication rather than as a standalone assessment.