ArticleExperimental brain research2014
The effect of aging on anticipatory postural control.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 162 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Age-related variations in trunk muscle activation and kinematics during lifting in chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Postural demands modulate tactile perception in the lower limb in young and older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Proprioceptive Control of Muscle Activation in Aging: Implications for Balance and Fall Risk.Biology · 2025Article
- Advances in the Study of Anticipatory Postural Adjustments.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Single session of direction-specific training using auditory cues improves anticipatory postural adjustments to lateral perturbations.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- A machine-learning method isolating changes in wrist kinematics that identify age-related changes in arm movement.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
The aim of the study was to investigate the differences in anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) between young and older adults and its effect on subsequent control of posture. Ten healthy older adults and thirteen healthy young adults were exposed to predictable external perturbations using the pendulum impact paradigm. Electromyographic activity of the trunk and leg muscles, the center of pressure (COP), and center of mass (COM) displacements in the anterior-posterior direction were recorded and analyzed during the anticipatory and compensatory postural adjustments (CPAs) phases of postural control. The effect of aging was seen as delayed anticipatory muscle activity and larger compensatory muscle responses in older adults as compared to young adults. Moreover, in spite of such larger reactive responses, older adults were still more unstable, exhibiting larger COP and COM peak displacements after the perturbation than young adults when exposed to similar postural disturbances. Nonetheless, while APAs are impaired in older adults, the ability to recruit muscles anticipatorily is largely preserved; however, due to their smaller magnitudes and delayed onsets, it is likely that their effectiveness in reducing the magnitude of CPAs is smaller. The outcome of the study lends support toward investigating the ways of improving anticipatory postural control in people with balance impairments due to aging or neurological disorders.
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