ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2016
Vestibular contribution to balance control in the medial gastrocnemius and soleus.
Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Independent directional tuning of the human triceps surae muscles during standing postural control.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2026Article
- Observational
- Habituation of vestibular-evoked balance responses after repeated exposure to a postural threat.The Journal of physiology · 2025Article
- Postural Control and Neuromuscular Activation in 11-13-Year-Old Athletic Boy Swimmers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Neural Interruption by Unilateral Labyrinthectomy Biases the Directional Preference of Otolith-Related Vestibular Neurons.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Lower leg muscle structure and function are altered in long-distance runners with medial tibial stress syndrome: a case control study.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2021Article
- Motor Responses of Lumbar Erector Spinae Induced by Electrical Vestibular Stimulation in Seated Participants.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Postural control in paw distance after labyrinthectomy-induced vestibular imbalance.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2020Article
- Time Window of Perturbation-Induced Response Triggered by Ankle Motion and Body Sway above the Ankle.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Modulation of vestibular-evoked responses prior to simple and complex arm movements.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
- Subthreshold stochastic vestibular stimulation affects balance-challenged standing and walking.PloS one · 2020Article
- Soleus single motor units show stronger coherence with Achilles tendon vibration across a broad bandwidth relative to medial gastrocnemius units while standing.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Article
- The Vestibular Drive for Balance Control Is Dependent on Multiple Sensory Cues of Gravity.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Sensorimotor Manipulations of the Balance Control Loop-Beyond Imposed External Perturbations.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Review
- Reevaluation of reflex responses of the human masseter muscle to electrical lip stimulation.Journal of neurophysiology · 2017Article
- Vestibular control of standing balance is enhanced with increased cognitive load.Experimental brain research · 2017Article
- Transformation of Vestibular Signals for the Control of Standing in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
Abstract
The soleus (Sol) and medial gastrocnemius (mGas) muscles have different patterns of activity during standing balance and may have distinct functional roles. Using surface electromyography we previously observed larger responses to galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) in the mGas compared with the Sol muscle. However, it is unclear whether this difference is an artifact that reflects limitations associated with surface electromyography recordings or whether a compensatory balance response to a vestibular error signal activates the mGas to a greater extent than the Sol. In the present study, we compared the effect of GVS on the discharge behavior of 9 Sol and 21 mGas motor units from freely standing subjects. In both Sol and mGas motor units, vestibular stimulation induced biphasic responses in measures of discharge timing [11 ± 5.0 (mGas) and 5.6 ± 3.8 (Sol) counts relative to the sham (mean ± SD)], and frequency [0.86 ± 0.6 Hz (mGas), 0.34 ± 0.2 Hz (Sol) change relative to the sham]. Peak-to-trough response amplitudes were significantly larger in the mGas (62% in the probability-based measure and 160% in the frequency-based measure) compared with the Sol (multiple P < 0.05). Our results provide direct evidence that vestibular signals have a larger influence on the discharge activity of motor units in the mGas compared with the Sol. More tentatively, these results indicate the mGas plays a greater role in vestibular-driven balance corrections during standing balance.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.