Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention

The paper shows people adjust lateral stability during walking based on environment and anticipated movements, supporting a trade-off between stability and manoeuvrability.

This study examines how arm restriction affects dynamic stability and upper-body responses to lateral balance loss during walking, finding reduced stability and altered trunk movements in two-arm restriction.

This study uses Bayesian estimation with phase oscillator models to analyze leg-trunk coordination during walking, finding that neither leg-trunk nor interleg coordination is strictly controlled.

This study examines corticocortical and corticomuscular connectivity dynamics during standing posture using EEG and EMG, finding frequency-specific changes in connectivity strength and states related to postural balance.

This study quantifies mouse tail movements in response to balance perturbations and shows their role in maintaining posture and controlling center of mass during locomotion.

This study compares balance control strategies between older and younger adults using foot force data and simulations, finding older adults rely more on neural feedback due to reduced muscle stiffness.

This study uses intersection point analysis of ground reaction forces to show that humans minimize joint effort by adjusting ankle and hip torques during balance on a narrow beam.

This study examines how cognitive involvement affects gait control by analyzing kinematic and neuromuscular features under different task and environmental conditions in healthy young adults.

The paper shows gait signatures remain individual-specific across walking speeds, with 3D kinematic data achieving high accuracy in classifying individuals.

This study examines how mediolateral balance is affected when walking on winding paths, finding that narrower paths and higher sinuosity increase stepping errors and instability risk.

This study examines how people adjust their stepping during straight and winding walks, finding that narrower paths and faster winding require more precise lateral control.

This tutorial presents methods to assess stabilizing feedback control of human walking using gait analysis, ranging from simple kinematics to inverse dynamics, with open-source code provided.

This study investigates how force-field perturbations and muscle vibration affect foot placement control during gait, finding that sensory augmentation leads to an after-effect but combining it with force-field perturbations does not enhance the effect further.

This study uses predictive musculoskeletal simulations to show that delayed center of mass feedback in elderly humans increases muscle co-contraction and alters balance strategies during perturbations.

This paper introduces a neuromusculoskeletal model for simulating upright standing postural control using sensor feedback, showing it can replicate physiological joint movements and reactive balance behavior.

This study examines how different auditory noise intensities and structures affect postural control dynamics, finding reduced variability only at high intensity.

This study examines how foot placement control strategies during unperturbed walking generalize to perturbed gait, finding poor generalization and differential sensitivity to forward and backward perturbations.

The paper investigates how cortical contributions to balance recovery increase with task difficulty using neuromechanical modeling of muscle activity and EEG data.

This study examines dual-task performance costs of walking and speaking in virtual environments with varying anxiety levels, finding that virtual height increases anxiety but not speech pauses.

The paper models human walking stability by combining biomechanics and neural control, showing that stable walking requires specific control gain values that depend on walking speed.

This study compares postural control in adolescent volleyball players and inactive peers using center of pressure and ground reaction force data, finding that temporal GRF parameters differ significantly between groups.

The paper investigates brain activity during whole-body motion perception in reactive balance, finding distinct cortical correlates for perception and motor function.

The paper analyzes brain-muscle networks during gait to show age-related reductions in neuromuscular connectivity and compensatory changes in individuals with impaired foot tactile sensitivity.

This study examines how older adults adapt their stepping during lateral maneuvers and how physical and perceived balance ability affect their performance.

This study measures electrocortical activity during walking on uneven terrain and varying speeds, finding distinct brain region responses to terrain difficulty and speed.

This study examines how older and younger adults adjust lateral balance while walking on narrowing paths, finding that older adults show greater MoSL variability and different instability risk patterns.

The paper proposes a new convention for defining step parameters in non-straight walking by aligning coordinates to walking paths, showing reduced errors and consistency with straight walking concepts.

The paper identifies discrete cortical control during quiet stance through beta oscillation desynchronization and rebound, supporting an intermittent control model over continuous stiffness control.

This study investigates whether the perceived timing of postural instability onset differs between equal and unequal stimulus onset asynchrony distributions using a Temporal Order Judgment task.

This study examines how habitual exercise affects gait adaptation during split-belt treadmill walking, finding that regular exercisers adapt faster and more persistently to movement perturbations.