Passenger stability within moving railway vehicles: limits on maximum longitudinal acceleration

JP Powell, R Palacín - Urban Rail Transit, 2015 - Springer
Increasing the acceleration and deceleration of trains within a railway network can improve
the performance of the system. However, the risk of passengers losing their balance and …

The impact of trunk impairment on performance of wheelchair activities with a focus on wheelchair court sports: a systematic review

VC Altmann, AL Hart, YC Vanlandewijck… - Sports medicine …, 2015 - Springer
Background Trunk impairment seems to impact significantly on performance in wheelchair
court sports, but evidence to support this impression has never been systematically …

Validity and reliability of assessment tools for measuring unsupported sitting in people with a spinal cord injury

CL Boswell-Ruys, DL Sturnieks, LA Harvey… - Archives of Physical …, 2009 - Elsevier
Boswell-Ruys CL, Sturnieks DL, Harvey LA, Sherrington C, Middleton JW, Lord SR. Validity
and reliability of assessment tools for measuring unsupported sitting in people with a spinal …

Development of valid and reliable measures of postural stability

S Sprigle, C Maurer, M Holowka - The journal of spinal cord …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background/Objective: The development of simple postural stability tests that relate
to performance of activities of daily living (ADL) and can be quickly performed in a clinical …

Dynamic trunk stability is improved in paraplegics following kayak ergometer training

A Bjerkefors, MG Carpenter… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of the study was to assess whether postural stability in persons with spinal cord
injury (SCI) could be affected by training. Ten post‐rehabilitated persons with thoracic SCI …

Preliminary investigation of the lateral postural stability of spinal cord-injured individuals subjected to dynamic perturbations

D Kamper, K Barin, M Parnianpour, S Reger, H Weed - Spinal Cord, 1999 - nature.com
Study Design: A study of the impact of spinal cord injury (SCI) on seated balance was
conducted by comparing the results obtained from experiments with able-bodied and SCI …

Transfer from table to wheelchair in men and women with spinal cord injury: coordination of body movement and arm forces

EB Forslund, A Granström, R Levi, N Westgren… - Spinal Cord, 2007 - nature.com
Study design: A complex set-up was used to investigate kinematics and ground reaction
forces. Setting: Motor Control and Physical Therapy Research Laboratory, Neurotec …

Center of pressure excursion capability in performance of seated lateral-reaching tasks

MB Parkinson, DB Chaffin, MP Reed - Clinical Biomechanics, 2006 - Elsevier
Background. Seated center of pressure excursion capability can be used for patient
evaluation in a clinical setting and in universal design. A quantification of excursion …

The ABLE scale: the development and psychometric properties of an outcome measure for the spinal cord injury population

EM Ardolino, KJ Hutchinson, G Pinto Zipp… - Physical …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background A paucity of information exists on the psychometric properties of several
balance outcome measures. With the exception of the Modified Functional Reach Test, none …

Effects of balance training on patients with spinal cord injury

JH Kim, YJ Chung, HK Shin - Journal of Physical Therapy Science, 2010 - jstage.jst.go.jp
[Purpose] This study examined the effect of balance training on an unstable surface on
patients with spinal cord injury (SCI).[Methods] Twelve inpatients, 7 in the experimental …