Immediate impact of extremity manipulation on dual task performance: a randomized, crossover clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous research demonstrated that manipulation of the extremities was associated with changes in multisegmental postural sway as well as improvement in a lower extremity balancing task. We were interested if these effects would extend to an upper extremity task. Our aim in this study was to investigate whether extremity manipulation could influence dual task performance where the explicit suprapostural task was balancing a water filled tube in the frontal plane.

Methods

Participants were healthy volunteers (aged 21-32 years). Upper- or lower-extremity manipulations were delivered in a participant and assessor blinded, randomized crossover, clinical trial. Postural (center of pressure) and suprapostural (tube motion) measurements in the frontal plane were made pr

SUBMITTER: Malaya CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7863424 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature