ArticlePLoS computational biology2019
Anticipatory coadaptation of ankle stiffness and sensorimotor gain for standing balance.
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- Learning to stand with delays alters sensorimotor control but does not cause instability when returning to natural balance.The Journal of physiology · 2025Article
- Habituation of vestibular-evoked balance responses after repeated exposure to a postural threat.The Journal of physiology · 2025Article
- Standing balance test for fall prediction in older adults: a 6-month longitudinal study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Aging Does Not Alter Ankle, Muscle, and Tendon Stiffness at Low Loads Relevant to Stance.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- Older adults use fewer muscles to overcome perturbations during a seated locomotor task.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Learning to stand with sensorimotor delays generalizes across directions and from hand to leg effectors.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Time-delay estimation in biomechanical stability: a scoping review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- At matched loads, aging does not alter ankle, muscle, or tendon stiffness.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Voluntary muscle coactivation in quiet standing elicits reciprocal rather than coactive agonist-antagonist control of reactive balance.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
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- Age-related impairments and influence of visual feedback when learning to stand with unexpected sensorimotor delays.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Incongruity of Geometric and Spectral Markers in the Assessment of Body Sway.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
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- Nonlinear postural control paradigm for larger perturbations in the presence of neural delays.Biological cybernetics · 2021Article
- Response to perturbation during quiet standing resembles delayed state feedback optimized for performance and robustness.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Rolling balance board of adjustable geometry as a tool to assess balancing skill and to estimate reaction time delay.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- Age differences in anticipatory and executory mechanisms of gait initiation following unexpected balance perturbations.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
External perturbation forces may compromise standing balance. The nervous system can intervene only after a delay greater than 100 ms, during which the body falls freely. With ageing, sensorimotor delays are prolonged, posing a critical threat to balance. We study a generic model of stabilisation with neural delays to understand how the organism should adapt to challenging balance conditions. The model suggests that ankle stiffness should be increased in anticipation of perturbations, for example by muscle co-contraction, so as to slow down body fall during the neural response delay. Increased ankle muscle co-contraction is indeed observed in young adults when standing in challenging balance conditions, and in older relative to young adults during normal stance. In parallel, the analysis of the model shows that increases in either stiffness or neural delay must be coordinated with decreases in spinal sensorimotor gains, otherwise the feedback itself becomes destabilizing. Accordingly, a decrease in spinal feedback is observed in challenging conditions, and with age-related increases in neural delay. These observations have been previously interpreted as indicating an increased reliance on cortical rather than spinal control of balance, despite the fact that cortical responses have a longer latency. Our analysis challenges this interpretation by showing that these observations are consistent with a functional coadaptation of spinal feedback gains to functional changes in stiffness and neural delay.
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