Defining the concept of physical resilience and quantifying recovery during standing balance in middle-aged and older adults.

ABSTRACT: Physical resilience is the ability to recover from an external perturbation, an integral aspect of functional adaptability and healthy behavior. Techniques that quantify behavior over multiple time scales offer a solution to quantifying resilience. As people age, they tend to lose functional adaptability and resilience. However, age-related declines in resilience between middle-aged and older adults is unclear. This study compared the difference in the ability to recover to baseline following standing balance perturbations between middle-aged and older adults, and between those that do or do not recover to baseline. Thirty-eight middle-aged and thirty-one older adults stood on a force platform during five, 60-sec trials. The platform moved posteriorly a specified distance during each trial

SUBMITTER: Manning J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889150 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature