Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2020
Role of a single session of ball throwing exercise on postural control in older adults with mild cognitive impairment.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Neuromechanistic causes of timber falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: Is response initiation or motor execution the problem?GeroScience · 2026Article
- Neuromuscular control mechanism during posture-cognition dual task in mild cognitive impairment: a concurrent fNIRS-sEMG-COP study.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Comparative Effects of Fatiguing Exercise on Anticipatory and Compensatory Postural Adjustments between Trained and Untrained Individuals.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Postural Responses to Sudden Horizontal Perturbations in Tai Chi Practitioners.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Effect of predictability of the magnitude of a perturbation on anticipatory and compensatory postural adjustments.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of the study was to investigate the role of training in improvement of balance control in older adults with mild cognitive impairment.
methodsOlder adults (mean age 78) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and cognitively intact older adults (mean age 72) were exposed to self-initiated perturbations while performing bilateral shoulder flexion task before and after a single training session consisting of throwing a medicine ball. EMG activity of six trunk and lower limb muscles was recorded. Muscle onsets, integrals of EMG, and muscle co-contraction (C) and reciprocal (R) activation indices were calculated and analyzed during the anticipatory and compensatory phases of postural control.
resultsAnticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) were observed in both groups. Individuals with MCI, as compared to controls, had higher level of co-contraction of muscles. The training resulted in enhancement of the generation of APAs in individuals with MCI seen as earlier onset of leg and trunk muscle activity prior to the bilateral arm flexion task. While smaller co-contraction of muscles post-training was seen in both the groups, the effect of a single training session was significant in control subjects only.
conclusionsThe outcome of the exploratory study suggests that perturbation-based training could be used to improve balance control in older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment.
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