Balance and gait in the elderly: A contemporary review

MY Osoba, AK Rao, SK Agrawal… - Laryngoscope …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The prevalence of balance and gait deficits increases with age and is
associated with the increased incidence of falls seen in the elderly population; these falls …

Age-related changes in leg proprioception: implications for postural control

M Henry, S Baudry - Journal of neurophysiology, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
In addition to being a prerequisite for many activities of daily living, the ability to maintain
steady upright standing is a relevant model to study sensorimotor integrative function …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroimaging of human balance control: a systematic review

E Wittenberg, J Thompson, CS Nam… - Frontiers in human …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
This review examined 83 articles using neuroimaging modalities to investigate the neural
correlates underlying static and dynamic human balance control, with aims to support future …

Differentiation in theta and beta electrocortical activity between visual and physical perturbations to walking and standing balance

SM Peterson, DP Ferris - eneuro, 2018 - eneuro.org
Human balance is a complex process in healthy adults, requiring precisely timed
coordination among sensory information, cognitive processing, and motor control. It has …

[HTML][HTML] Neural control of balance during walking

H Reimann, T Fettrow, ED Thompson… - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neural control of standing balance has been extensively studied. However, most falls occur
during walking rather than standing, and findings from standing balance research do not …

Effects of balance training with stroboscopic glasses on postural control in chronic ankle instability patients

H Lee, S Han, G Page, DA Bruening… - … Journal of Medicine …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI) are believed to rely more on visual information
during postural control due to impaired proprioceptive function, which may increase the risk …

Gait adaptations during overground walking and multidirectional oscillations of the visual field in a virtual reality headset

D Martelli, B Xia, A Prado, SK Agrawal - Gait & posture, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Virtual reality (VR) has been used to study locomotor adaptability during
balance-demanding tasks by exploring how humans react and adapt to the virtual …

[HTML][HTML] Age-related differences in gait adaptations during overground walking with and without visual perturbations using a virtual reality headset

MY Osaba, D Martelli, A Prado, SK Agrawal… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Older adults have difficulty adapting to new visual information, posing a challenge to
maintain balance during walking. Virtual reality can be used to study gait adaptability in …

[HTML][HTML] Step width variability as a discriminator of age-related gait changes

A Skiadopoulos, EE Moore, HR Sayles… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2020 - Springer
Background There is scientific evidence that older adults aged 65 and over walk with
increased step width variability which has been associated with risk of falling. However …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the temporal organization of walking variability: a systematic review and consensus guidelines on detrended fluctuation analysis

DK Ravi, V Marmelat, WR Taylor, KM Newell… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Human physiological signals are inherently rhythmic and have a hallmark feature in that
even distant intrasignal measurements are related to each other. This relationship is termed …