Practice walking on a treadmill-mounted balance beam modifies beam walking sacral movement and alters performance in other balance tasks.

ABSTRACT: The goals of this study were to determine if a single 30-minute session of practice walking on a treadmill mounted balance beam: 1) altered sacral marker movement kinematics during beam walking, and 2) affected measures of balance during treadmill walking and standing balance. Two groups of young, healthy human subjects practiced walking on a treadmill mounted balance beam for thirty minutes. One group trained with intermittent visual occlusions and the other group trained with unperturbed vision. We hypothesized that the subjects would show changes in sacrum movement kinematics after training and that there would be group differences due to larger improvements in beam walking performance by the visual occlusions group. We also investigated if there was any balance transfer from training o

SUBMITTER: Symeonidou ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10270570 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature