ArticleExperimental brain research2017
Changes in balance coordination and transfer to an unlearned balance task after slackline training: a self-organizing map analysis.
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- Three months of slackline training elicit only task-specific improvements in balance performance.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Effects of acute slackline exercise on executive function in college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The optimal method for improving postural balance in healthy young and older people: specific training for postural tasks encountered in personal physical practice.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
- A Quantitative Comparison of Slackline Balancing Capabilities of Experts and Beginners.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
- Kohonen Neural Network Investigation of the Effects of the Visual, Proprioceptive and Vestibular Systems to Balance in Young Healthy Adult Subjects.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Slacklining: A narrative review on the origins, neuromechanical models and therapeutic use.World journal of orthopedics · 2021Review
- Perceptual information supports transfer of learning in coordinated rhythmic movement.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Slacklining: An explanatory multi-dimensional model considering classical mechanics, biopsychosocial health and time.World journal of orthopedics · 2021Review
- Task-Related Hemodynamic Response Alterations During Slacklining: An fNIRS Study in Advanced Slackliners.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2021Article
- The Ecological Task Dynamics of Learning and Transfer in Coordinated Rhythmic Movement.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Does a Passive Unilateral Lower Limb Exoskeleton Affect Human Static and Dynamic Balance Control?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2019Article
- Six weeks of balance or power training induce no generalizable improvements in balance performance in healthy young adults.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2019Article
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Abstract
How humans maintain balance and change postural control due to age, injury, immobility or training is one of the basic questions in motor control. One of the problems in understanding postural control is the large set of degrees of freedom in the human motor system. Therefore, a self-organizing map (SOM), a type of artificial neural network, was used in the present study to extract and visualize information about high-dimensional balance strategies before and after a 6-week slackline training intervention. Thirteen subjects performed a flamingo and slackline balance task before and after the training while full body kinematics were measured. Range of motion, velocity and frequency of the center of mass and joint angles from the pelvis, trunk and lower leg (45 variables) were calculated and subsequently analyzed with an SOM. Subjects increased their standing time significantly on the flamingo (average +2.93 s, Cohen's d = 1.04) and slackline (+9.55 s, d = 3.28) tasks, but the effect size was more than three times larger in the slackline. The SOM analysis, followed by a k-means clustering and marginal homogeneity test, showed that the balance coordination pattern was significantly different between pre- and post-test for the slackline task only (χ
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