ArticleScientific reports2021
Co-contraction of ankle muscle activity during quiet standing in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury is associated with postural instability.
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- Interventions to Improve Standing Balance in Individuals With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
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- Differences in postural strategies between children with and without ADHD in tasks of static and dynamic balance.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Intermittent hypoxia enhances voluntary activation and reduces performance fatigability during repeated lower limb contractions.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- The relationship between balance control and thigh muscle strength and muscle activity in persons with incomplete spinal cord injury.Spinal cord series and cases · 2024Article
- Feasibility of using a depth camera or pressure mat for visual feedback balance training with functional electrical stimulation.Biomedical engineering online · 2024Article
- Voluntary muscle coactivation in quiet standing elicits reciprocal rather than coactive agonist-antagonist control of reactive balance.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Development of a Coaching System for Functional Electrical Stimulation Rowing: A Feasibility Study in Able-Bodied Individuals.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Effects of Noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation on the Muscle Activity and Joint Movements in Different Standing Postures Conditions.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previous findings indicate that co-contractions of plantarflexors and dorsiflexors during quiet standing increase the ankle mechanical joint stiffness, resulting in increased postural sway. Balance impairments in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) may be due to co-contractions like in other individuals with reduced balance ability. Here we investigated the effect of co-contraction between plantar- and dorsiflexors on postural balance in individuals with iSCI (iSCI-group) and able-bodied individuals (AB-group). Thirteen able-bodied individuals and 13 individuals with iSCI were asked to perform quiet standing with their eyes open (EO) and eyes closed (EC). Kinetics and electromyograms from the tibialis anterior (TA), soleus and medial gastrocnemius were collected bilaterally. The iSCI-group exhibited more co-contractions than the AB-group (EO: 0.208% vs. 75.163%, p = 0.004; EC: 1.767% vs. 92.373%, p = 0.016). Furthermore, postural sway was larger during co-contractions than during no co-contraction in the iSCI-group (EO: 1.405 cm/s
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