Anticipatory postural adjustments in older versus young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) are a feedforward mechanism triggered in advance to a predictable perturbation, to help the individual counteract mechanical effects that the disturbance may cause. Whether or not this strategy is compromised in the elderly is not a consensus in the literature.

Methods

In this systematic review with meta-analysis, we investigated aging effects on postural control, based on anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs). We selected 11 eligible articles of the following databases: Lilacs, SciELO, PubMed, Cochrane Central, Embase, and CINAHL, involving 324 research participants, assessing their methodological quality and extracting electromyographic, posturographic, and kinematic measurements. We included studies that investigated

SUBMITTER: Duarte MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9685888 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature