scholarly journals Postural Control in Unipedal Quiet Stance in Young Female Gymnasts and the Effects of Training with Consideration of Transient Behavior of Postural Sway

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 982
Author(s):  
Urška Čeklić ◽  
Nejc Šarabon ◽  
Žiga Kozinc
Keyword(s):  
Postural Control ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Quiet Stance ◽  
Cohen’S D ◽  
Female Gymnasts ◽  
Cohen's D

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to compare postural control between a group of young female gymnasts (n = 15; age: 11.2 ± 1.9 years) and non-trained peers (n = 15; age: 10.9 ± 2.0 years), and (b) to investigate the effect of an 8-week whole body exercise intervention program on postural control in young female gymnasts. Postural control was assessed by recording center of pressure (CoP) movements during unipedal quiet stance. Velocity and amplitude of CoP movement in anterior-posterior (AP) and medial-lateral (ML) directions were considered. In addition to common trial-averaged CoP outcomes, we also considered the transient behavior of CoP movements, by calculating relative differences between the 1st and 2nd, and the 1st and 3rd 10-s intervals within the whole trial (DIF_21 and DIF_31, respectively). The gymnast group had lower total CoP velocity (Cohen’s d = 0.97) and AP amplitude (Cohen’s d = 0.85), compared to their non-trained peers. The gymnasts also had lower CoP AP amplitude DIF21 (Cohen’s d = 0.73), with almost constant values across all intervals. After the training ML CoP velocity was reduced for 13.12% (Cohen’s d = 0.60), while ML CoP amplitude increased (Cohen’s d = −0.89).

The Effects of Acute and Long-Term Whole-Body Vibration Training on the Postural Control During Cognitive Task in Patients With Chronic Ankle Instability

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Seyed Abolfazl Tohidast ◽  
Rasool Bagheri ◽  
Ziaeddin Safavi-Farokhi ◽  
Mohammad Khaleghi Hashemian ◽  
Cyrus Taghizadeh Delkhosh
Keyword(s):  
Postural Control ◽  
Postural Stability ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Ankle Instability ◽  
Lateral Displacement ◽  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Chronic Ankle Instability ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Body Vibration ◽  
The Mean

Context: Chronic ankle instability (CAI) is a common problem associated with impaired postural stability. Whole-body vibration (WBV) has been developed to improve muscle function and reportedly improves postural stability. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of 12 sessions of WBV on postural control during standing postural task in participants with CAI. Design: A controlled clinical trial study. Methods: Sixteen participants with CAI and 16 healthy participants aged between 20 and 40 years included in this study. They received WBV (30-Hz frequency, 3 series of four 45-s exercises with a 45-s rest) for a total of 12 sessions, 2 session per week for 6 weeks. Postural control was assessed by center of pressure (COP) parameters, including mean and SD in the anterior–posterior and medial–lateral displacement during single-leg standing. Assessments were done before and immediately after the first session and after the 12th session of WBV, with opened and closed eyes associated with easy and difficult cognitive tasks. Results: The results showed that the SD of COP displacement in the x-axis was significant in eyes opened and SD of COP displacement in the x- and y-axes were significant between groups in the eyes-opened, and eyes-closed conditions (P < .05). Analysis of variance indicated that the effect of WBV training was significant for the mean of COP displacement in the y-axis. Post hoc indicated that the effect of 12 sessions of WBV on the mean of COP displacement was significant in the CAI group (P < .05). However, the acute effect of WBV was not significant on the COP displacement in all axes (P > .05). Conclusion: Higher postural sway associated with postural cognitive interactions might be considered in the rehabilitation of CAI. Twelve sessions of WBV might induce some improvement in postural control with the method of WBV used in this study.

scholarly journals Motor Strategies Used by Rats Spinalized at Birth to Maintain Stance in Response to Imposed Perturbations

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 2663-2675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon F. Giszter ◽  
Michelle R. Davies ◽  
Virginia Graziani
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Principal Axis ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Ground Reaction Forces ◽  
Quiet Stance ◽  
Reaction Forces ◽  
Pattern Generators ◽  
Motor Strategies ◽  
Intact Rats

Some rats spinalized P1/P2 achieve autonomous weight-supported locomotion and quiet stance as adults. We used force platforms and robot-applied perturbations to test such spinalized rats ( n = 6) that exhibited both weight-supporting locomotion and stance, and also normal rats ( n = 8). Ground reaction forces in individual limbs and the animals' center of pressure were examined. In normal rats, both forelimbs and hindlimbs participated actively to control horizontal components of ground reaction forces. Rostral perturbations increased forelimb ground reaction forces and caudal perturbations increased hindlimb ground reaction forces. Operate rats carried 60% body weight on the forelimbs and had a more rostral center of pressure placement. The pattern in normal rats was to carry significantly more weight on the hindlimbs in quiet stance (roughly 60%). The strategy of operate rats to compensate for perturbations was entirely in forelimbs; as a result, the hindlimbs were largely isolated from the perturbation. Stiffness magnitude of the whole body was measured: its magnitude was hourglass shaped, with the principal axis oriented rostrocaudally. Operate rats were significantly less stiff—only 60–75% of normal rats' stiffness. The injured rats adopt a stance strategy that isolates the hindlimbs from perturbation and may thus prevent hindlimb loadings. Such loadings could initiate reflex stepping, which we observed. This might activate lumbar pattern generators used in their locomotion. Adult spinalized rats never achieve independent hindlimb weight-supported stance. The stance strategy of the P1 spinalized rats differed strongly from the behavior of intact rats and may be difficult for rats spinalized as adults to master.

Bone Mass and Somatic Development in Young Female Gymnasts: A Longitudinal Study

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Courteix ◽  
Christelle Jaffré ◽  
Philippe Obert ◽  
Laurent Benhamou
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Normal Growth ◽  
Bone Age ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Vigorous Activity ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Somatic Development ◽  
Female Gymnasts ◽  
Prepubertal Girls

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of vigorous activity on the somatic and skeletal growths in young females reaching puberty. From a group of 41 prepubertal girls, 24 remained in this study: 10 gymnasts training 15 to 22 hr a week and 14 non-exercising controls. At the start and during the study period, bone age, height, weight, fat and lean mass were significantly lower in the gymnasts vs. the controls (p < .05). These variables had increased in the same way for both groups. At each investigation, the gymnasts had significantly higher BMC, BMD, and BMAD at all the sites (p < .01) except the whole body. The strong correlation between somatic measurements at the start and at the end of the study indicated that physical exercise does not disrupt the normal growth in these children.

scholarly journals The Effects of Leg Preference on Transient Characteristics of Body Sway During Single-Leg Stance: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Žiga Kozinc ◽  
Nejc Šarabon
Keyword(s):  
Postural Control ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Sway ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Transient Characteristics ◽  
Velocity Amplitude ◽  
Additional Information

Instrumented assessments of quiet-stance postural control typically involve recording and analyzing of body sway signal, most often the center of pressure (CoP) movement. It has been recently suggested that transient characteristics of body sway may offer additional information regarding postural control. In this study, we explored the relationship between whole-trial estimates of body sway (CoP velocity, amplitude, and frequency) and corresponding transient behavior indexes, as well as the effects of leg preference. A total of 705 healthy young athletes performed 30 s single-leg body sway trials for both legs. It was found that the transient characteristics of the body sway (expressed as relative differences between individual time intervals within the trial) are in negligible or weak correlation (r ≤ 0.26) with the corresponding variables, averaged across the whole trial. All CoP variables showed transient characteristics, reflected in statistically significant decrease (CoP velocity and amplitude) or increase (CoP frequency) throughout the trial. The preferred leg showed smaller body sway; however, the effect sizes were very small. Moreover, differences between the legs were also noted in terms of transient characteristics of body sway. In particular, the preferred leg showed earlier reduction in anterior–posterior body sway and larger reduction in medial–lateral body sway. Further studies should focus on examining the clinical utility of indexes of transient behavior of body sway, for instance, their sensitivity to aging-related changes and risk of falling.

Influence of the intervention program according to Pulmonary Rehabilitation principles on breathing functions of healthy individuals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renáta Malátová ◽  
Petr Bahenský ◽  
Martin Mareš ◽  
David Marko
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Rehabilitation ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Vital Capacity ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Thoracic Region ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Cohen’S D ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Cohen's D

Purpose: The aim of the study is to develop and verify an intervention program based on find-ings of the subject field Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the application of such programme to a daily program of healthy probands over a six-week period. The authors were concerned with determining whether an intervention program, based on a combination of aerobic load and resistance training, might affect the breathing stereotype and breathing functions in healthy individuals. Methods: Muscle dynamometer MD03 was used to examine the extent of engagement of in-dividual breathing regions. Breathing functions, or more specifically, the forced vital capacity (FVC) and one-second vital capacity (FEV1), were measured by means of Spirometer Ot-thon, and the evaluation was conducted using program ThorSoft. The intervention included 6 probands at the age of 21.3 ± 0.8 who exercise regularly. The probands underwent initial and final tests. The data obtained were evaluated and substantial significance was deter-mined using Cohen’s d, and the Student’s paired t test for dependent selection. Significance value was determined at significance value α = 0.05. Data were processed in programs Mi-crosoft Excel 2016 and Statistica 12. Results: The tested set of probands showed a substantially significant change of value FVC (Cohen’s d = −0.13, i.e. a small effect). This change was also statistically significant. As regards value FEV , a substantially significant change incurred (Cohen’s d = −0.23, i.e. a small effect). Likewise, this change was statistically significant. The analysis of breathing movements of the observed group of probands revealed improvement especially in the lower thoracic region (abdominal) following the completion of the intervention program. In resting breathing, a substantially significant (Cohen’s d = 2.83, a large effect) as well as statistically significant change was effectuated in this region. In the middle thoracic region, a substantial-ly significant change (Cohen’s d = 0.01, i.e. a small effect) incurred; however, there was no statistical change. No substantially or statistically significant changes were obtained for the upper thoracic (subclavian) region. Conclusion: Our results imply that the aforementioned intervention applied in healthy individ-uals who exercise regularly hasn’t had a positive influence on breathing functions. Though there was a small improvement in the breathing stereotype, the optimum engagement of the abdominal breathing region within the breathing wave as described in specialized literature was not accomplished.

scholarly journals Interest of active posturography to detect age-related and early Parkinson's disease-related impairments in mediolateral postural control

2014 ◽  
Vol 112 (10) ◽  
pp. 2638-2646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédrick T. Bonnet ◽  
Arnaud Delval ◽  
Luc Defebvre
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Postural Control ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Behavioral Variability ◽  
Quiet Stance ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Elderly Control

Patients with Parkinson's disease display impairments of postural control most particularly in active, challenging conditions. The objective of the present study was to analyze early signs of disease-related and also age-related impairments in mediolateral body extension and postural control. Fifty-five participants (18 Hoehn and Yahr stage 2 patients in the off-drug condition, 18 healthy elderly control subjects, and 19 young adults) were included in the study. The participants performed a quiet stance task and two active tasks that analyzed the performance in mediolateral body motion: a limit of stability and a rhythmic weight shift task. As expected, the patients displayed significantly lower and slower body displacement (head, neck, lower back, center of pressure) than elderly control subjects when performing the two body excursion tasks. However, the behavioral variability in both tasks was similar between the groups. Under these active conditions, the patients showed significantly lower contribution of the hip postural control mechanisms compared with the elderly control subjects. Overall, the patients seemed to lower their performance in order to prevent a mediolateral postural instability. However, these patients, at an early stage of their disease, were not unstable in quiet stance. Complementarily, elderly control subjects displayed slower body performance than young adults, which therefore showed an additional age-related impairment in mediolateral postural control. Overall, the study illustrated markers of age-related and Parkinson's disease impairments in mediolateral postural control that may constrain everyday activities in elderly adults and even more in patients with Parkinson's disease.

scholarly journals Comparison of two methods of postural control analysis during upright and quiet stance

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Forti Barela ◽  
Diego Alveno ◽  
Claudia Garcia ◽  
Cássio A. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Postural Control ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Force Platform ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Quiet Stance ◽  
Mean Velocity ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
Base Of Support

The goal of this study was to compare two methods of analysis, the use of force platform and based on video system, to investigate the postural control of young adults during upright stance on three bases of support. Fifteen young adults (30±4.96 years old) were asked to maintain an upright and quiet stance on a force platform for 30 s on bipedal, semi-tandem stance, and reduced bipedal bases of support. One reflective marker was placed on their back to acquire the space coordinates. Mean sway amplitude and mean velocity in anterior-posterior (AP) and medial-lateral (ML) directions and the area of stabilogram were calculated and used to compare the two methods of analysis and the effects of bases of support. Coefficient of correlation values indicated strong relation between trajectories of center of pressure and reflective marker in both directions (AP and ML), and statistical analysis of both methods indicated similar results in terms of effects of base of support. According to these results it might be suggested that both methods of analysis to investigate the control of upright and quiet stance in young adults can be used.  

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