Influence of stance width on standing balance in healthy older adults.

ABSTRACT: Posturography is an objective way to systematically interpret postural control. Recent evidence suggests self-selected stance width when conducting posturography in healthy young participants, as it is easy to perform yet standardized. It is unclear, if this is similarly applicable to healthy older adults which can better serve as comparison group for persons with specific impairments, like Parkinson's disease, who might have problems with set foot distances. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of different stance widths on a set of parameters in healthy older adults. Twenty-four healthy elderly (65.6 ± 5.0 years, BMI 26.2 ± 4.5 kg/m²) participated in the study. Posturographic measurement consisted of two tests (body sway, BS; limits of stability, LoS) each as

SUBMITTER: Schmidle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9618500 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature