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Healthy young adults maintain postural control during gait termination with a manual task. They adapt by adjusting upper body movements, showing flexibility in integrating tasks without compromising stability.

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  • Human Movement Science
  • Neuroscience

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  • Gait termination presents postural stability challenges, especially when combined with secondary tasks like object manipulation.
  • Limited research exists on postural control during gait termination while performing manual tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate changes in postural control during gait termination with and without a concurrent prehension (reaching) task.

Main Methods:

  • 15 healthy young adults performed single-task gait termination (GTO) and dual-task gait termination with reaching (GTR).
  • Postural Time-to-Contact (TtC) was measured using Center of Pressure (CoP) and sternum position (AP/ML) during preparatory and stabilization phases.
  • Paired t-tests analyzed TtC differences between GTO and GTR conditions.

Main Results:

  • During the preparatory phase, sternum AP TtC was shorter in GTR (dual task) compared to GTO (single task), while CoP TtC showed no difference.
  • In the stabilization phase, both CoP and sternum TtC were longer in GTR than GTO in both anterior-posterior (AP) and medial-lateral (ML) directions.

Conclusions:

  • Healthy young adults flexibly integrate upper body demands with gait termination and prehension tasks, indicated by adjusted sternum TtC in the preparatory phase.
  • The prehension task during gait termination did not reduce overall postural stabilization in the later phase, suggesting effective compensatory strategies.