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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020

Vibrotactile Feedback for Improving Standing Balance.

Giulia Ballardini, Valeria Florio, Andrea Canessa, Giorgio Carlini, Pietro Morasso, Maura Casadio

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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6 authors.

Giulia BallardiniDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Valeria FlorioDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Andrea CanessaDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Giorgio CarliniDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Pietro MorassoDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Maura CasadioDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maintaining balance standing upright is an active process that complements the stabilizing properties of muscle stiffness with feedback control driven by independent sensory channels: proprioceptive, visual, and vestibular. Considering that the contribution of these channels is additive, we investigated to what extent providing an additional channel, based on vibrotactile stimulation, may improve balance control. This study focused only on healthy young participants for evaluating the effects of different encoding methods and the importance of the informational content. We built a device that provides a vibrotactile feedback using two vibration motors placed on the anterior and posterior part of the body, at the L5 level. The vibration was synchronized with an accelerometric measurement encoding a combination of the position and acceleration of the body center of mass in the anterior-posterior direction. The goal was to investigate the efficacy of the information encoded by this feedback in modifying postural patterns, comparing, in particular, two different encoding methods: vibration

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balancebiofeedbackpostural controlsomatosensory integrationvibrotactile feedback

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PMID32154229
PMCPMC7046798

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