Ankle muscle stiffness in the control of balance during quiet standing

DA Winter, AE Patla, S Rietdyk… - Journal of …, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
… of stiffness control during quiet standing. A re-review of their references to biomechanical
research on muscle ankle stiffness confirmed muscle stiffness estimates of the ankle series …

Ankle muscle stiffness alone cannot stabilize balance during quiet standing

PG Morasso, V Sanguineti - Journal of neurophysiology, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
quiet standing is achieved by the stiffness of ankle muscles without anticipatory active control.
It is shown that a recently proposed method of estimating ankle stiffness … value of stiffness. …

Direct measurement of human ankle stiffness during quiet standing: the intrinsic mechanical stiffness is insufficient for stability

ID Loram, M Lakie - The journal of physiology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… This stiffness cannot be neurally regulated in quiet standing. Thus we attribute this stiffness
to … Our conclusion is that in quiet standing intrinsic ankle stiffness is not under neural control …

Direct measurement of ankle stiffness during quiet standing: implications for control modelling and clinical application

M Casadio, PG Morasso, V Sanguineti - Gait & posture, 2005 - Elsevier
… direct measurement of intrinsic ankle stiffness in quiet standing. It … the value of the ankle
stiffness, which was normalized as a … addressed the intrinsic ankle stiffness and were not affected …

Stiffness control of balance in quiet standing

DA Winter, AE Patla, F Prince, M Ishac… - Journal of …, 1998 - journals.physiology.org
… A stiffness model was developed for quiet standing. The model assumes that muscles act
as … In the sagittal plane this stiffness control exists at the ankle plantarflexors, in the frontal …

Can muscle stiffness alone stabilize upright standing?

PG Morasso, M Schieppati - Journal of neurophysiology, 1999 - journals.physiology.org
… Second, we show that physiological values of stiffness of the ankle muscles are insufficient
… that f v ≈mg in quiet standing, then this equation tells us that variations of muscle torque are …

The influence of ankle muscle activation on postural sway during quiet stance

MJ Warnica, TB Weaver, SD Prentice, AC Laing - Gait & posture, 2014 - Elsevier
… Although balance during quiet standing is postulated to be … of muscle activation and passive
ankle stiffness increases on the … six quiet stance conditions including: relaxed standing, four …

Direct measurement of the intrinsic ankle stiffness during standing

M Vlutters, TA Boonstra, AC Schouten… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
… The ankle stiffness together with the … the ankle-foot stiffness, which is relevant to quiet
standing. The contribution of the intrinsic ankle-foot stiffness to balance, and the ankle-foot stiffness

Quantifying Intrinsic Ankle Stiffness in Quiet Standing: A Systematic Review

Ł Nowakowski, M Wysogląd, M Furmanek… - Journal of Kinesiology …, 2023 - jkes.eu
… Estimating ankle stiffness during quiet standing is a key issue for understanding the basic …
by the intrinsic stiffness of the muscles and other load-bearing tissues [1]. In the quiet standing

Ankle stiffness of standing humans in response to imperceptible perturbation: reflex and task‐dependent components.

RC Fitzpatrick, JL Taylor… - The Journal of …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
… To observe the EMG changes during quiet standing, recordings of angle, torque and … muscles.
In the present study, subjects changed their ankle stiffness despite the same initial muscle