Trial reportAnnals of biomedical engineering2016
Mastoid Vibration Affects Dynamic Postural Control During Gait.
Trial report in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Comparison Between Effects of Galvanic and Vibration-Based Vestibular Stimulation on Postural Control and Gait Performance in Healthy Participants: A Systematic Review of Cross-Sectional Studies.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Pooled it
- Ageing changes the proprioceptive contribution to balance control under different types of mastoid vibration: A cross-sectional study.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Applying bilateral mastoid vibration changes the margin of stability in the anterior-posterior and medial-lateral directions while walking on different inclines.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
- The ground reaction force pattern during walking under vestibular-demanding task with/without mastoid vibration: implication for future sensorimotor training in astronauts.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Vibrations on mastoid process alter the gait characteristics during walking on different inclines.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Different Types of Mastoid Process Vibrations Affect Dynamic Margin of Stability Differently.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Stabilization demands of walking modulate the vestibular contributions to gait.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Entropy Analysis in Gait Research: Methodological Considerations and Recommendations.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2021Review
- Perception of threshold-level whole-body motion during mechanical mastoid vibration.Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation · 2018Article
- Tactile stimuli affect long-range correlations of stride interval and stride length differently during walking.Experimental brain research · 2017Article
- Mastoid vibration affects dynamic postural control during gait in healthy older adults.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Our objective was to investigate how manipulating sensory input through mastoid vibration (MV) could affect dynamic postural control during walking, with and without simultaneous manipulation of the visual and the somatosensory systems. We used three levels of MV (none, unilateral, and bilateral) via vibrating elements placed on the mastoid processes. We combined this with the six conditions of the Locomotor Sensory Organization Test (LSOT) paradigm to challenge the visual and somatosensory systems. We hypothesized that MV would affect both amount and temporal structure measures of sway variability during walking and that, in combination with manipulations of the visual and the somatosensory inputs, MV would augment the effects previously observed. The results confirmed that MV produced a significant increase in the amount of sway variability in both anterior-posterior and medial-lateral directions. Significant changes in the temporal structure of sway variability were only observed in the anterior-posterior direction. Bilateral MV produced larger effects than unilateral stimulation. We concluded that sensory input while walking could be affected using MV. Combining MV with manipulations of visual and somatosensory input could allow us to better understand the contributions of the sensory systems during locomotion.
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