The interplay between cognitive tasks and vision for upright posture balance in adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The control of an upright stance in humans is important in medicine, psychology, and physiology. The maintenance of upright stance balance depends not only on sensory information from proprioceptive, vestibular, cutaneous, and visual sources but also on cognitive resources. The present study investigated the effects of cognitive tasks while standing with eyes open on upright stance balance in adolescents. We hypothesized that performing a cognitive task while standing with eyes open would increase body sway among these adolescents and that the upright posture would thus become less stable.

Methods

A static balance assessment system comprising a force platform connected to a computer was used to evaluate the stability of the upright stance among 21 healthy adolesce

SUBMITTER: Meng HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6765351 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature