Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention

This study finds that older adults show improved cognitive task performance during dual-task walking, associated with flexible neural resource reallocation, while younger adults also show similar improvements.

This study examines how emotional states affect gait parameters in young adults, finding that sadness and excitement alter step length, speed, and timing, but not variability or postural control.

The paper introduces SGCI, a smartwatch-based gait coordination index to assess walking patterns using gyro sensors, showing it can detect abnormal gait through arm-leg movement coordination.

This study examines how visual cues affect gait adjustments during incline transitions in young and older adults using virtual reality.

The paper evaluates accuracy-speed-stability trade-offs in stepping tasks between young and older adults, finding no age differences in trade-off magnitudes but linking lower stability to reduced accuracy in older adults.

This study evaluates how age and mild cognitive impairment affect the ability to modulate gait features during dance-based therapy.

This study investigates how intermittent visual occlusions during balance beam walking affect electrocortical activity, finding phase synchrony in brain regions involved in sensory processing and balance control.

This study examines how conscious movement processing affects neuromuscular control of posture, finding increased postural sway and reduced complexity under high-CMP conditions.

This paper demonstrates that humans adaptively regulate lateral stepping during maneuvers by evolving cost landscapes, consistent with theoretical predictions and previous models.

This study examines how vestibular stimulation affects gait stability and foot placement precision across different step widths.

This study examines how brain structure relates to balance in young and older adults under different sensory conditions, finding associations between cortical thickness, gyrification, and white matter microstructure with balance performance.

The paper predicts anterior ground reaction force and step length in neurotypical adults using gait speed and individual characteristics.

This study examines how temporal and physical certainty influence locomotor strategies during underfoot perturbations, finding that physical certainty improves recovery efficiency.

This study shows young adults use whole-body motion and ankle proprioception to detect subtle locomotor disturbances during walking.

The paper examines how head rotation affects standing balance during visual tracking in young and older adults, finding greater postural sway in older adults during pursuit tasks.

The paper investigates cognitive flexibility during dual-task walking using MoBI, finding that improved performance is linked to specific EEG changes and gait stability.

This study examines how age and cognitive load influence muscle activation patterns during walking perturbations, finding older adults use more type IIa fibers while younger adults use more type IIb fibers.

This study examines the relationship between lower limb muscle strength and explosive force with timing phases of reactive stepping in young adults.

This study examines how brain structure relates to dual task walking in young and older adults, finding age-specific associations between brain atrophy and gait performance during cognitive tasks.

This study finds older adults make more errors and show greater balance variability during shoulder checks while cycling, contributing to higher single-sided bike accident risk.

The paper investigates whether energy expenditure explains step length-width preferences during walking and finds it is not the sole factor.

This study identifies unique neural signatures of mobility in older adults at-risk of cognitive impairment using EEG and gait analysis during visual perturbations.

This study examines how balance improves in older adults after one and ten balance training sessions, finding rapid gains in robustness but slower performance improvements and no significant changes in reflexes or co-contraction.

This study identifies gait and balance measures responsive to change in Friedreich ataxia over 12 months, finding the FARS USS and BBS most responsive across subgroups, with DGI best for children.

This study examines how cognitive load affects balance in healthy young adults during dual-task conditions, finding that cognitive tasks reduce balance ability in more challenging postural tests.

The paper identifies an ankle strategy during steady-state walking where ankle moments correct for foot placement errors and influence subsequent foot placement.

This paper compares gait variability measures between overground walking and self-paced treadmill walking in healthy subjects and Parkinson's patients, finding significant errors in treadmill measurements for patients.

This study shows that energy optimization during walking is primarily an implicit process, with participants adapting to energy-efficient gaits without conscious awareness.