ArticleFrontiers in physiology2019
Effects of Increasing Balance Task Difficulty on Postural Sway and Muscle Activity in Healthy Adolescents.
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- Effects of Physical and Mental Fatigue on Postural Sway and Cortical Activity in Healthy Young Adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Acute effects of a single unilateral balance training session on ipsi- and contralateral balance performance in healthy young adults.BMC research notes · 2021Article
- Effects of task difficulty during practice on learning a dynamic balance task in healthy young adults: An intervention study.BMC research notes · 2021Article
- Effects of balance training on balance performance in youth: role of training difficulty.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Balance task difficulty affects postural sway and cortical activity in healthy adolescents.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Evidence-based prescriptions for balance training in youth have recently been established. However, there is currently no standardized means available to assess and quantify balance task difficulty (BTD). Therefore, the objectives of this study were to examine the effects of graded BTD on postural sway, lower limb muscle activity and coactivation in adolescents. Thirteen healthy high-school students aged 16 to 17 volunteered to participate in this cross-sectional study. Testing involved participants to stand on a commercially available balance board with an adjustable pivot that allowed six levels of increasing task difficulty. Postural sway [i.e., total center of pressure (CoP) displacements] and lower limb muscle activity were recorded simultaneously during each trial. Surface electromyography (EMG) was applied in muscles encompassing the ankle (m. tibialis anterior, medial gastrocnemius, peroneus longus) and knee joint (m. vastus medialis, biceps femoris). The coactivation index (CAI) was calculated for ankle and thigh muscles. Repeated measures analyses of variance revealed a significant main effect of BTD with increasing task difficulty for postural sway (
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