Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Up-training loading responses in older adults.

S Wolf1, P Catlin, B Bonner

  • 1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
|February 1, 2000
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Prevalence of key bacterial pathogens among children with pharyngotonsillitis in The Gambia - a case-control study.

The Journal of infection·2026
Same author

Pain relief in interventional radiology.

Clinical radiology·2023
Same author

Radiological positioning of a proximal interphalangeal joint resurfacing implant: Reliability and functional outcomes correlation.

Hand surgery & rehabilitation·2023
Same author

Fast reconstruction of centre of mass and foot kinematics during a single-legged horizontal jump: A point-cloud processing approach.

Journal of biomechanics·2022
Same author

Thumb Interphalangeal Joint Arthroplasty With a Surface Replacing Implant: Two-Year Results.

The Journal of hand surgery·2021
Same author

A guide to an improvised femoral traction splint in a resource-limited setting.

African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence·2021

Older adults attempting to improve balance using center of pressure feedback showed a tendency to decrease vertical loading response. This training did not correlate with improvements in clinical balance tests.

Area of Science:

  • Gerontology
  • Biomechanics
  • Motor Control

Background:

  • Falls are a significant concern for older adults, impacting mobility and independence.
  • Maintaining balance relies on effective sensorimotor responses to perturbations.
  • Center of pressure (COP) feedback offers a potential method for training balance responses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if older adults can up-train their vertical loading response (LR) using COP feedback.
  • To determine the effect of such training on clinical measures of balance in older adults.

Main Methods:

  • A randomized, experimental-control group study with 11 community-ambulating older adults (≥65 years).
  • Participants underwent baseline, control/training, and posttest sessions with visual cueing and dynamic toes-up perturbations.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Training involved verbal, visual, and auditory feedback to shape an increased total LR within a 225 ms response window.

    • Main Results:

    • The experimental group tended to decrease vertical loading relative to baseline, despite feedback aimed at increasing it.
    • A specific component of the response window (T3, 150-225 ms) showed a decline during training.
    • While up-training may accelerate the rate of rise to the maintenance window, it likely occurs too late for balance correction.
    • No significant correlation was found between changes in loading response and clinical balance test performance.

    Conclusions:

    • Center of pressure feedback training, as implemented, did not effectively up-train the vertical loading response in older adults.
    • The observed changes in loading response did not translate to improvements in clinical balance tests.
    • Further research is needed to refine feedback strategies for enhancing balance control in older populations.