ArticleScientific reports2023
Lifespan changes in postural control.
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- A sensorimotor enhanced neuromusculoskeletal model for simulating postural control of upright standing.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- External mechanical perturbations challenge postural stability in dogs.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Editorial: Postural control, exercise physiology and the balance training-type of exercises, mechanisms and insights.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Lifespan development of postural control shows as an inverted U-shaped function with optimal performance in young adults and similar levels of underperformance in children and older adults. However, similarities in children and older adults might conceal differences in underlying control processes. We mapped out age-related differences in postural control using center-of-pressure trajectories of 299 participants ranging from 7 to 81 years old in three tasks: stable stance, compromised vision, and narrowed base of support. Summary statistics (path length, ellipse area) replicated the well-known U-shape function also showing that compromising vision and narrowing the base of support affected older adults more than children. Stabilogram diffusion analysis (SDA) allows to assess postural control performance in terms of diffusion at short (< 1 s) and longer timescales. SDA parameters showed the strongest short-term drift in older adults, especially under compromised vision or narrowed base of support conditions. However, older adults accommodated their poor short-term control by corrective adjustments as reflected in long-term diffusion under eyes closed conditions and initiating anti-persistent behavior earlier compared with children and young adults in tandem stance. We argue that these results highlight the adaptability of the postural control system and warrant a reinterpretation of previous postural control frameworks.
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